Richard,

If you can find some one that would let you use their thickness planer (or you could spend 400 bucks), all of your strips could be planed to an exact even thisckess. This would save you a lot of sanding when its time to fair the hull.

Dave

: I just finished ripping strips for a kayak I will build this winter using an
: old 10"Craftsman table saw with a 7 1/4 " blade. For some reason
: it left the strips thicker at the top of the cut, which I solved by
: flipping the board over between cuts. I'm not sure what caused the problem
: in the first place, but I suspect the 7 1/4" blade did not have
: enough teeth projecting above the cut. Another thing I noticed was that
: the amount of pressure on the feather board affected the thickness of the
: strips. This tended to vary as the width of the boards I was using was not
: consistent along their length. Due to the uneven strips, I'll use the
: rolling bevel method rather than bead and cove. Next time I think I will
: try "board buddies" and a 10" blade.