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Re: Material: strips from plywood
By:Gelu Botezan
Date: 2/24/2012, 12:56 am
In Response To: Re: Material: strips from plywood (Jay Babina )

: Forget plywood strips.

: I looked up Carpathians since I didn't know where it was and gat
: hits on loads of lumber suppliers.
: If you have wood houses then you can make a stripper. Larger
: construction lumber will give you more sections with less or no
: knots.
: I would not be afraid to use wood with small knots for the hull and
: try to scarf nicer clear wood for your deck.

: Years back I was at a wood kayak gathering and a person had a strip
: kayak made from knotty pine and it was beautiful.

Thanks guys for encouraging thoughts and hints, every word was really helpful.

Jay, you're right about lots of wood and wood suppliers here but the forests they harvest now are young, and accordingly the lumber is not what it should be, any more. I remember when I built my log home, back in 2005, I was searching for 16-20" logs and only found 10- 12" diameter with some exceptions.

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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