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Plywood
By:Jonathan Hirsch
Date: 10/5/2000, 7:52 pm

Hi all
Well after finding a design of kayak I like (Cormorant 16) I decided to go to the plywood shop to have a look at what type of plywood is available.
They had some gaboon (okoume) but the 4mm plywood has 3 plys and the 2 outer plys are very thin (<1mm)and the inner ply was about 2mm. Is this normal as some of the other types of 4mm ply had 3 plys of equal thickness. This is a specialist plywood shop and I thought they would have the highest quality.
Does gaboon ply come in different qualities, I think this stuff was made in France.
TIA
Jon

Messages In This Thread

Plywood
Jonathan Hirsch -- 10/5/2000, 7:52 pm
Re: Plywood
Andrew Eddy -- 10/5/2000, 9:58 pm
Re: Plywood
Jonathan Hirsch -- 10/5/2000, 11:06 pm
Re: Plywood
Paul Lund -- 10/6/2000, 12:30 am
Re: Plywood
Jonathan Hirsch -- 10/9/2000, 2:53 am
Re: Sydney
Paul Lund -- 10/10/2000, 4:37 am