Make sure you get flat-sawn lumber so your strips will have vertical grain. If you start with quarter-sawn lumber, your strips will have horizontal grain and this was a major pain to fair on the Wee Lassie II. Maybe I got my hands on a particularly troublesome batch of wood, but next time I'm going to make sure I start with flat-sawn planks.

Ross

: I have the same problem locating anything other than clear redwood. I used
: all redwood on my Wee Lassie II with good results. The weight was
: comparable to cedar - maybe a little heavier, but not much. I'll continue
: using redwood until I can find anything else locally.

: Ross