My numbers tend towards the "just barely enough". I tend to try to get by with the minimum. Newfound Woodworks has been burned a few times by people who ran out, probably because they wasted some strips. The best number may be somewhere in between. If you use my number, you will have to be very careful with each strip and you won't have much in the way of scrap. If you use Newfounds number, you may have a bunch of short scrap peices and a couple full strips left over when your done.

If you are a first time builder, you are probably better off using Newfound's number.

> Well, its time to buy the strips for my Guillemot. I will most likely
> drive 2 hours to Newfound and pick them up myself. Here's the question.

> Nicks Table of materials calls for 1004 feet of C&B or 53 18 foot lenghts
> (~960). he claims this contains %20 overage. When I called Newfound, they
> looked in their 'kit book' and said I needed just shy of 1200 which (using
> nicks numbers) seems to be %40 overage. Can someone narrow down the
> requirements for a first timer. I dont want to have a tree's worth when Im
> done but I also dont wanna redo the drive for 4 feet of wood

> Thanx.