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Re: Strip: Best length of boards\strips?
By:Allan
Date: 7/23/2014, 11:49 pm
In Response To: Strip: Best length of boards\strips? (Robert W)

I don't believe that it matters a great deal what length boards you use.

I have usually used strips that are 2.4 metres (8 feet) to 3 metres (9 feet) long. I once built a 5 metre kayak using 1.8 metre strips because the only courier I could organise wanted to charge an obscene amount of money to carry anything longer than 1.8 metres. I didn't have any problems with the build and no-one has ever commented on the number of joins.

Joining strips doesn't add any extra time because I taper the ends using Nick's belt sander method and I glue them together on the forms. The joins are quick and easy and often almost invisible if I match the grain.

I find trying to work with full length strips creates a number of problems that I would prefer to avoid; problems like the glue skinning over before I can get the whole strip held in place.

Only a few of the strips will be the full length of the kayak, so it seems to me to be a lot of trouble to spend time chasing long boards when a lot of them could be shorter anyway.

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Strip: Best length of boards\strips?
Robert W -- 7/23/2014, 4:31 pm
Re: Strip: Best length of boards\strips?
JohnAbercrombie -- 7/23/2014, 6:48 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/23/2014, 8:12 pm
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Allan -- 7/23/2014, 11:49 pm
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Jay Babina -- 7/24/2014, 10:57 am
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george jung -- 7/24/2014, 11:25 am
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Jay Babina -- 7/24/2014, 5:07 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/24/2014, 8:08 pm
Re: Strip: Best length of boards\strips?
Allan -- 7/24/2014, 6:20 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 7/24/2014, 10:37 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 7/25/2014, 9:09 am
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Stephen Barney -- 7/25/2014, 10:41 am
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ancient kayaker -- 7/25/2014, 12:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/26/2014, 10:22 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/24/2014, 8:57 am
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george jung -- 7/24/2014, 8:16 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/24/2014, 10:56 pm
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Paul Davies. -- 7/24/2014, 11:05 pm
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george jung -- 7/25/2014, 9:40 am