Hi All;

Well, after all the great advice on this board, I guess I'm really building a kayak now. I bought the boards, set up the strip cutting jig, and produced enough beautiful strips for 1-1/2 kayaks, if I don't screw up too many of them during the building process . . .

For a novice at mass ripping as I am, it took 3 hours of cutting and an hour of setup (4 hours total) to produce the 0.235" (average, 0.230=0.240" overall) strips. I was shooting for a fat 3/16", and like to plane and sand a lot. :-)

You can view the results at http://www.dbeweb.com/kayak / and select "cutting strips."

Next comes scarfing a few dozen together, and then milling the cove and bead in the hull strips. Piece of cake, it's all downhill now! For all the other newly hooked posters, try it - - you'll like it.

Best Regards, Spidey