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Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/24/2015, 11:15 am
In Response To: Strip: bookmatch planning (Patrick North)

Personally I wouldn't even try to book match the hull sides, no one can see both sides at once so there is no effect for a heck of a lot of effort and expense. The bottom and the deck though you can easily see both sides. I'm not really sure book matched strips have much of an effect anyway, I suspect the only one that would notice is you. Now doing the deck and perhaps the middle of the bottom in wider strips that are book matched might be interesting and a challenge too. You'd have to figure out a way to cut them thin enough or plane them to the proper thickness on the back side. I've done it with trim on the deck and I can tell you it takes serious time. I was using figured cherry and it does not bend, has to be cut and planed to fit.

I would most certainly make test panels to test the effect you plan on getting.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: bookmatch planning
Patrick North -- 9/24/2015, 10:53 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Bill Hamm -- 9/24/2015, 11:15 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Jay Babina -- 9/25/2015, 8:25 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Daniel Thaler -- 9/25/2015, 9:11 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Bill Hamm -- 9/25/2015, 10:09 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2015, 10:27 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Patrick North -- 9/25/2015, 11:28 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Bill Hamm -- 9/25/2015, 4:10 pm
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2015, 4:50 pm
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning *PIC*
Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2015, 4:47 pm
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/26/2015, 10:33 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Mike Bielski -- 9/25/2015, 11:33 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Patrick North -- 9/25/2015, 11:50 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/25/2015, 11:34 am
Re: Strip: bookmatch planning
Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2015, 4:52 pm