> Actually, there are no "true" cedars native to the United
> States. Each U.S. "cedar" belongs to it's own genus. A true
> cedar has deciduous leaves

True cedars are members of the genus Cedrus and there are four species found in north Africa, the middle east and the himalayas. The wood is extremely aromatic (traditionally used as drawer bottoms to keep moths out of clothes and borers out of furniture) and very resinous. I have used some Cedrus atlantica in making paddles and have had no trouble with gluing but the resin chokes up sanding disks pretty quickly!

and most are found in Europe. Anyway, I used
> Alaska yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)

at last a scientific name! Scientific names are the only way of unambiguously descibing a kind of wood. Here in New Zealand we have timbers commonly called red pine, black pine, white pine, kauri pine etc . None of these are members of the genus Pinus and none of them are related to any northern hemisphere species! Confusion reigns and we all get wet!

for a couple of stripes
> for accent on my Expedition Single. It is about twice as dense as red
> cedar so I limited its use to trim pieces. My problem was with planing it.
> It is harder than red cedar and tended to pull my plane into the wood
> causing gouges. I had to stop planing and try sanding. This was difficult
> as the red cedar sanded much easier and the yellow cedar stripe tended to
> make a hump. It looks nice, but was quite a lot of work. Because the
> yellow cedar is dense, it is also much stiffer so the idea of using
> thinner strips is a good one. I also made mine 1/2' wide instead of
> 3/4" to help with the stiffness problem on tight bends. The yellow
> color turned even brighter after glassing. It took some getting used to,
> but I like it.