> Nick, I have been waiting for this discussion to come around again for
> quite some time. Now that it has I have one question. I understand the
> consern of getting dry spots when building strippers as the soft cedar
> sucks epoxy readily but what about Okoume plywood with its mahagony
> hardwood surface. Could I assume that the plywood soaks less epoxy and
> does so uniformally with less chance of dry spots?

Not necessarily true. I just finished glassing Okume kayak and the absortion rate varies with the grain of the plywood.