> Pine or spruce would both work well. They are a little denser than cedars,
> but they work nicely.

This sounds good. I did have a look at Emil Kellanders page (written in Swedish, I am Norwegian and can read Swedish). He did use spruce when building his Guillemot as Spruce is a bit less weigth than pine.

Here in Norwaay it seams that if buying not planed spruce in size 16mm x 98 mm, normally used for building houses (approximately 0.63" x 3.86") cost for spruce to build a strip kayak with 1/4" strips would be close to USD 40. Not bad.

Now, I will need this equipment to be able to make the 1/4" (and to make thinner as used by George Roberts) strips. Maybe I will go for a table sw with round blade, maybe I will go for band saw.

If band saw, it is the question about how heavy, how many W motor...

I will have to think about this. Nice thing with thin strips is that need for bead and cove will be less.

Well, I will have to decide upon tools.

People here did argue that I do not need a router, but George Roberts did advice using a router to have nice surface on the strips to reduce amound of sanding if building with thin strips...

Jan Gunnar