> When choosing wood to make strips:

> Do you pick the ligtest board or the board with the rings closest together
> for strength? let us assume that direction of grain is as good in one
> board as on the other. I am to use spruce, but I guess that this will be
> the same decision whatever wood to be used. (Implicit belief on my part:
> Rings closer together means more strength AND more weigth. If the last
> assumption is wrong, then everything will be easier...)

> Jan Gunnar

The most importent thing regarding the strength of the wood is to have straigth and uncut fibers. The old long ships had board that where split with wedges. and that's the reason why you can't have sawn plank's with the same wide, they don't have the same strength. Well you don't have to split your strips with wedges but be sure to have straight fibers