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Re: Strip: Kayak Build - quick update
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/10/2014, 9:19 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Kayak Build - quick update (wanderfalk)

1/8" in a day with a plywood form? Unless you've got huge temperature and humidity swings I'd be very surprised it's that much. Even solid hardwood which swells quite a bit in humidity changes won't expand that much that quickly.

If you do have those temperature and humidity swings, you really should look into controlling it somehow, it'll make a mess of the building process.

Bill H.

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Mochaboy -- 10/7/2014, 4:13 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/7/2014, 4:51 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 10/8/2014, 1:28 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/7/2014, 4:58 pm
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Mochaboy -- 10/7/2014, 7:36 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 10/8/2014, 10:33 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/7/2014, 5:14 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 10/8/2014, 1:31 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/8/2014, 11:27 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 10/8/2014, 11:37 am
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Mike Bielski -- 10/8/2014, 11:55 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/8/2014, 4:45 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/7/2014, 5:41 pm
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Mochaboy -- 10/7/2014, 7:38 pm
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Robert Horstmann -- 10/8/2014, 8:52 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/8/2014, 1:01 pm
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wanderfalk -- 10/8/2014, 10:36 pm
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Rob Macks -- 10/9/2014, 9:43 am
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dave koslow -- 10/9/2014, 2:52 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/10/2014, 9:19 am