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Re: Strip: EcoPoxy?No Epoxy?
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 8/12/2016, 12:10 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: EcoPoxy?No Epoxy? (Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K)

Cedar is the most excellent boat building wood.

Eastern White Cedar is a lot different than Western Red Cedar, in my experience. (White is a better wood IMO though hard to find in clear lengths.) And, a bark canoe can be made with different 'internal' woods - but not without bark!

It's always a compromise - I've never come across a wood that was very light (low density) AND also dent resistant.

Anyway, 'boat building' is too big a category to have one answer. For larger boats, some have said that Douglas Fir is the perfect wood - hull, decking and spars....etc.

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Strip: EcoPoxy?No Epoxy?
John Bell -- 8/10/2016, 3:40 pm
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy?No Epoxy?
Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2016, 12:19 am
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John Bell -- 8/11/2016, 5:44 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 8/11/2016, 8:41 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 8/11/2016, 9:44 am
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John Bell -- 8/11/2016, 6:13 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 8/11/2016, 7:23 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/11/2016, 1:00 pm
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John Bell -- 8/11/2016, 6:11 pm
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jaybabina -- 8/11/2016, 7:24 am
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John Bell -- 8/11/2016, 6:17 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 8/12/2016, 7:47 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 8/12/2016, 12:10 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/12/2016, 2:33 pm
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John Bell -- 8/12/2016, 7:12 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 8/13/2016, 10:01 pm
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy?No Epoxy? *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 8/14/2016, 9:13 am
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John Bell -- 8/14/2016, 5:40 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 8/14/2016, 7:10 pm
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy?No Epoxy? *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 8/15/2016, 10:00 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 8/15/2016, 10:29 am
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Mike Bielski -- 8/11/2016, 8:06 am
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John Bell -- 8/11/2016, 6:19 pm
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Justin -- 8/11/2016, 9:43 am
Great post
jaybabina -- 8/11/2016, 4:49 pm
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy?No Epoxy?
John Bell -- 8/11/2016, 6:20 pm
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy? - did you consider SOF
Journeyman Politician -- 8/12/2016, 8:40 am
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy? - did you consider SOF
John Bell -- 8/12/2016, 7:20 pm
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy? - did you consider SOF
Marc Upchurch -- 8/12/2016, 8:23 pm
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy? - did you consider SOF
JohnAbercrombie -- 8/13/2016, 11:03 am
Re: Strip: EcoPoxy? - did you consider SOF
John Bell -- 8/13/2016, 2:58 pm