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Re: where to get white cedar in Europe..
By:Hans Friedel
Date: 3/28/1999, 3:28 pm
In Response To: where to get white cedar in Europe.. (Jan Jakob de Graaf)

> I live in The Netherlands and I would like to start building a kayak, but
> I have a little trouble finding the right wood for it. Although there are
> other kinds of wood to build with, I'd like to use white cedar, but it
> seems impossible to get it here in Holland.

> Maybe there is someone who knows where to get it in The Netherlands or
> somewhere else in Europe.

You can try Scandinavian spruce it is exelent for strip building. You can get it from Wermlandia kanoter

Hans Friedel

Messages In This Thread

where to get white cedar in Europe..
Jan Jakob de Graaf -- 3/28/1999, 4:43 am
Re: where to get white cedar in Europe..
Hans Friedel -- 3/28/1999, 3:28 pm