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Re: Material: strips from plywood
By:les cheeseman
Date: 2/22/2012, 2:52 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: strips from plywood (Wayne One (wwfloyd))

: It's an interesting thought. But, part of the process of strip work
: is to sand, and round off all of the edges, as the strips form
: curves. This will leave areas where varying amounts of
: additional layers will show, as the top layer is sanded off.
: (Hmm, could be a weird, intriguing look; I'd like to see it.)

: There may be other issues that I'm missing.

As well as the strange!? finish you would create sanding the boat to get it fair,
an earlier problem you would encounter is the fact that whilst it may be possible
to twist ply strips, you would almost certainly not be able to bend them in the
flat plane, to follow the lines of the "nice curvy stripper" that you seem to have
in your mind. Find some softwood boards cut the strips and scarf where you
need to cut out knots.

My two penniworth! Good luck.

Les C.

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Material: strips from plywood
Gelu Botezan -- 2/22/2012, 11:19 am
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Paul Davies -- 2/22/2012, 12:45 pm
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Sean Dawe -- 2/22/2012, 1:43 pm
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Gelu Botezan -- 2/22/2012, 2:20 pm
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Mike Savage -- 2/22/2012, 2:49 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 2/22/2012, 5:11 pm
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Gelu Botezan -- 2/23/2012, 5:32 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 2/22/2012, 2:17 pm
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les cheeseman -- 2/22/2012, 2:52 pm
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Al Edie -- 2/22/2012, 4:31 pm
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Allan -- 2/23/2012, 3:43 am
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Gelu Botezan -- 2/23/2012, 5:20 am
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Allan -- 2/23/2012, 5:38 am
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les cheeseman -- 2/23/2012, 3:14 pm
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Gelu Botezan -- 5/27/2012, 4:48 am
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Jay Babina -- 5/27/2012, 6:39 am
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Gelu Botezan -- 5/27/2012, 8:12 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/27/2012, 9:51 am
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Gelu Botezan -- 5/27/2012, 3:39 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 5/28/2012, 12:13 am
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Jay Babina -- 2/23/2012, 9:20 am
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Gelu Botezan -- 2/24/2012, 12:56 am
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sskiff -- 2/24/2012, 3:10 am
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Don Flowers -- 2/24/2012, 12:56 pm
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StephenHJ -- 2/27/2012, 7:46 pm
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Gelu Botezan -- 2/28/2012, 4:57 am
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Justin -- 2/28/2012, 10:30 am
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Gelu Botezan -- 2/28/2012, 12:24 pm