: Alan, is that center strip pre-fab or did you piece all that together
: yourself?

: Robert N Pruden

Yea and no.

It was prefabricated, but it was me that prefabricated it.

I assembled that strip before I put it on the kayak. In fact it was the first bit of the kayak I built.

It was not as fiddly as might appear.

I posted an explanation about how it was done on the Blue Heron Kayaks forum.

http://www.blueheronkayaks.com/kayak/index.html

I can't work out how to link directly to my post, so you will have to go to the site and do a search for "decorative strips" or for "cedar" with "anewhouse" as the author.