the Kobayashi Maru solution *Pic*
By:Ed Valley
Date: 8/7/2000, 5:27 pm
Date: 8/7/2000, 5:27 pm
In Response To: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry) (Ronnie)
: I am using cherry strips for my coaming lip. I have had this wood for over
: ten years and I got it from a fellow that had it a while. When I do much
: bending it shatters. I cut the strips 1/16", but they still don't
: work. I suspect that the wood is too dry. What would be the best way to
: rehydrate the strips.
I had some wood I had to have in my coaming too, and could not bend it to my will, so to speak. So I took another approach. I cut the wood into wedge shaped sections, alternating the colors, and built the coaming block by block, kind of like a stone arch bridge, but through 360 deg. Here's a pic:
Ed Valley
Messages In This Thread
- Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Ronnie -- 8/5/2000, 3:40 pm- the Kobayashi Maru solution *Pic*
Ed Valley -- 8/7/2000, 5:27 pm- Re: the Kobayashi Maru solution *Pic*
Ed Valley -- 8/7/2000, 5:31 pm
- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Vernon Lowery -- 8/7/2000, 12:01 pm- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
peter czerpak -- 8/7/2000, 8:36 am- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Jerry siegel -- 8/5/2000, 11:33 pm- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Jerry siegel -- 8/5/2000, 11:16 pm- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
David barrett -- 8/5/2000, 10:59 pm- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Rehd -- 8/5/2000, 11:24 pm- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Kelly Trehearne -- 8/6/2000, 8:18 am- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Rehd -- 8/5/2000, 11:43 pm- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Jerry Siegel -- 8/6/2000, 12:26 am- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
Rehd -- 8/6/2000, 10:35 am
- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
- Re: Breaking coaming strips (Old Cherry)
- Re: the Kobayashi Maru solution *Pic*
- the Kobayashi Maru solution *Pic*