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Re: Saving wood.
By:Mark Kanzler
Date: 6/20/1998, 10:11 am
In Response To: Re: Link, I hope. (Paul Jacobson)

I put rebuttals below the quotes.

> Umm. Actually I'm not sure I'd want to defend strip built boats
> in a debate. You waste 30 percent of the wood, turning it to sawdust
> as you cut the strips.

Use a bandsaw with a thin blade.

> The best planks to use are quartersawn, and
> cutting a tree that way does not give the greatest yield.

If you rip the common 1x4 into 1/4 x 3/4 strips you effectively turn the grain 90 degrees about the axis of the grain. Now you have quartersawn from plain.

> You want
> clear wood, and that means older trees.

Scarf shorter boards.

> varnish... In a few years you could go through more petroleum than
> if you had bought a plastic 'yak made from recycled milk bottles.

How about "Made a plastic 'yak from recycled milk bottles" I'm always looking for unorthodox ways to do things (that's how most great innovations occur).

Messages In This Thread

Trees
Todd McGlaun -- 6/17/1998, 3:33 pm
Link, I hope.
Todd McGlaun -- 6/18/1998, 9:31 am
Re: Link, I hope.
Rob Cochrane -- 6/19/1998, 4:39 pm
Re: Link, I hope.
Paul Jacobson -- 6/20/1998, 1:47 am
Re: Link, I hope.
Rob Cochrane -- 6/20/1998, 5:43 pm
Re: Link, I hope.
Karl Kulp -- 6/20/1998, 11:10 am
Re: Saving wood.
Mark Kanzler -- 6/20/1998, 10:11 am
Re: Trees
Don Beale -- 6/19/1998, 1:12 am
A more direct link
Mark Kanzler -- 6/18/1998, 7:59 pm
Re: Link, I hope.
Mark Kanzler -- 6/18/1998, 7:47 pm
Re: Trees, careful use of renewable resources....
Tor-Henrik Furmyr -- 6/18/1998, 3:53 pm
I hope there's hope.
Mike R -- 6/18/1998, 2:56 pm
Re: Link, I hope.
NPenney -- 6/18/1998, 1:32 pm
Re: Trees
Roger Tulk -- 6/18/1998, 10:43 am
Re: Trees
Karl Kulp -- 6/18/1998, 11:03 am
Re: Trees
Kevin Sheppard -- 6/20/1998, 11:55 pm
Re: Trees
Karl Kulp -- 6/21/1998, 11:22 am
Re: Trees
Kevin Sheppard -- 6/21/1998, 8:29 pm
Re: Trees
Rob Cochrane -- 6/23/1998, 5:59 pm
Re: Trees
Karl Kulp -- 6/21/1998, 11:17 am
Re: Trees
Mike Spence -- 6/18/1998, 11:56 am
Re: Trees
Karl Kulp -- 6/18/1998, 1:03 pm
Re: Trees
Mike Spence -- 6/18/1998, 5:29 pm
Re: Trees
David Dick -- 6/20/1998, 12:54 am
Re: Moist Nostrils.
Mark Kanzler -- 6/19/1998, 4:49 pm
Re: Trees
John Lange -- 6/18/1998, 2:27 pm
Re: Trees (my review)
Mark Kanzler -- 6/17/1998, 4:17 pm
Re: Trees (my review)
Don Beale -- 6/17/1998, 9:28 pm
HUH?
Mike Spence -- 6/17/1998, 7:15 pm
Re: HUH?
Mike R -- 6/17/1998, 7:59 pm