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Re: Skin-on-Frame: kayak proportions
By:Mike Bielski
Date: 12/16/2014, 9:33 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: kayak proportions (Gero Verheyen)

I think WRC is all right. I would advise against Douglas Fir. It's too brittle. Spruce is probably best. Alaskan Yellow cedar might be great, but where I live it's more expensive than sitka spruce, and sitka is around twice the cost of WRC. I can also get genuine white pine, and like Bill said, it would be good. I don't think I'd use generic SPF whitewood from a box store though. Local to where I live there is a lot of Sassafras, which is a hardwood the same weight as spruce and twice as rot resistant as white oak. The mill it up at local Amish mills and it's pretty inexpensive. I use it for stems and deck beams and the like, even chines and keels, but it's kind of flexible, so I'd been nervous about using it for gunwales, but I ran into someone over the summer who had built one with sassafras gunwales, and it looked nice. The only problem is that it took 3 scarfs per side, which is probably what I'd need to do with the materials I can get around here. I am not sure I'd want to do that, but you never know.

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Gero Verheyen -- 12/12/2014, 4:49 pm
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Allan -- 12/12/2014, 6:30 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/12/2014, 7:20 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/12/2014, 10:37 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/12/2014, 11:00 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 12/13/2014, 9:57 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/13/2014, 1:53 pm
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George Groshong -- 12/13/2014, 2:32 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/13/2014, 3:40 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/13/2014, 4:28 pm
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john vanburen -- 12/15/2014, 9:40 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/15/2014, 10:31 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/15/2014, 2:29 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/15/2014, 4:59 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 12/15/2014, 10:44 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/15/2014, 11:01 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 12/15/2014, 11:19 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/16/2014, 9:03 am
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Mike Bielski -- 12/15/2014, 11:28 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/15/2014, 11:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/16/2014, 12:18 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 12/16/2014, 8:00 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 12/16/2014, 9:33 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/16/2014, 10:35 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 12/16/2014, 11:22 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/16/2014, 11:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/17/2014, 12:50 am
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Mike Bielski -- 12/17/2014, 9:33 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/17/2014, 12:48 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 12/17/2014, 7:39 am