That is really cool! Here was I (in the process of burning strips off my boards) marking diagonally across the ends of the boards with my kids' coloured pencils - a different colour for each board but repeating for different lengths of boards - in order to know from which board and where in that board each plank came such that I could colour match when I begin planking. Now I can add another dimension - grain matching. Sometime being AR does have its advantages . . .

One question - does C&B throw it off slightly or is it just a matter of adjusting how the grain aligns?

Greg

: Hi Brian

: can't easily post a pic, but say you were ripping the strips and you have 4
: strips in a bundle EXACTLY as they came off the orig board. Look at the
: very end of the bundle and just slightly splay out the strips so they look
: like a 'w' when viewed from the end. Then push them flat, and the grain
: will go up and down up and down, but always be connected at the edges. So
: if you kept track of your strips and if you used wide original boards, you
: could get continuous grain up and down(the arrow heads) all across the
: yak. I think Ross's canoe shows it on the open grain??

: But if you're a sub-human like me, just think of what you would do if you had
: laid up most of your yak and accidentally drove the truck over one of the
: pcs. The whole yak (or deck) is screwed, - time for the big jump!!

: -mick