We've found huge advantages to using composite over metal staples. First, you won't need to spend hours pulling staples, simply scrape, plane or sand them off. Composite staples won't damage tools and can be worked right along with the wood.

Second, the staples bond like glue and epoxy bonds to the composite staple. We believe our boats have an even better final shape with hulls held tight to forms while the exterior lamination goes down. And where staples penetrate strips... interior and exterior laminations bond through the wood core along form lines.

Finally, high compression and low shear strength means staples drive in to hold strips tight to building forms, but shear off easily when it's time to pull your forms. The finished canoe shows filled sanded-off staples rather than rows of holes. We won't say plastic stapes are the best and only way to build a canoe, we just don't know of a better way.