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Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip *LINK* *Pic*
By:Charles Leach
Date: 12/18/2004, 9:55 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip *LINK* *Pic* (Kurt Maurer)

: Try steaming pine before going out and buying ash is my advice. If it works,
: it'll be cheaper, and match your stem and stern pieces.

Hey Kurt and CM,

I've used thin laminations of white pine to build the lip. Also used Douglas fir, red oak, walnut, and wrc. It looks good when you mix it up - alternating light and dark colors - then, on the outside, use a color that matches something on the boat that you want to highlight(deck c/l, sheer strips, keel/stems, design/inlay/onlay). Just one more thing to think about.

Happy Building.

Charles.

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Messages In This Thread

Strip: Ash Coaming Lip
CM Hair -- 12/17/2004, 12:50 pm
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip *Pic*
John Monroe -- 12/19/2004, 5:30 am
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip
PatrickC -- 12/19/2004, 10:55 am
What I will do with my ash coaming
Robert N Pruden -- 12/18/2004, 2:32 pm
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip
Don Lucas -- 12/18/2004, 9:54 am
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip *LINK*
Brian Nystrom -- 12/17/2004, 6:23 pm
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip
CM Hair -- 12/17/2004, 8:39 pm
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip *LINK* *Pic*
Kurt Maurer -- 12/17/2004, 11:56 pm
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip
Brian Nystrom -- 12/19/2004, 8:50 am
Heat gunning ash makes it bend like rubber *LINK*
Robert N Pruden -- 12/18/2004, 2:38 pm
Re: Heat gunning ash makes it bend like rubber
Mark Grieve -- 12/18/2004, 10:44 pm
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip *LINK* *Pic*
Charles Leach -- 12/18/2004, 9:55 am
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip *Pic*
Kurt Maurer -- 12/18/2004, 10:53 am
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip
Charles Leach -- 12/18/2004, 5:33 pm
Re: Strip: Ash Coaming Lip
CM Hair -- 12/18/2004, 9:01 am