> Your first idea was to take door skins ($9 each) and epoxy ($6 to coat the
> 2 door skins) and make expensive plywood - $24/sheet plus labor.

> Now you want to take a mahogany ($3/bd ft - 24 3/4 strips or $2/ft^2) and
> make expensive plywood from it - $62/sheet plus labor.

> I would suggest that you go and buy good plywood and save the strips for a
> project worth the expense.

> If the mahogany is actually cheap, buy it and swap it for something more
> expensive.

The mahagony was actually free, but your right, I should buy the okume and save the mahagony for a strip-built boat.