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Re: Paddle: wood choices
By:Malcolm Schweizer
Date: 10/24/2010, 4:22 pm
In Response To: Paddle: wood choices (john faas)

If I lived on the left coast I'd be sourcing some spruce and redwood. Spruce is light and strong. They build planes out of it! Redwood would make a nice dark accent stripe. Like the others said, find a good lumber yard for better selection and maybe even cheaper prices.

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Paddle: wood choices
john faas -- 10/24/2010, 10:54 am
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John Eberly -- 10/25/2010, 10:40 am
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risto -- 10/25/2010, 5:59 am
Re: Paddle: wood choices
Malcolm Schweizer -- 10/24/2010, 4:22 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/25/2010, 12:18 am
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ian -- 10/24/2010, 3:59 pm
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Kudzu -- 10/24/2010, 11:20 am