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Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
By:John Monfoe
Date: 2/1/2002, 5:39 am
In Response To: Strip: Cheater Strips (Brad Birlew)

My favorite way of bending the wood strips was slitting the strip with a razor knife and a steel straight edge in the difficult area to be bent and forcing glue into the spread slit before fastening the full strip to the boat. That way the full grain of the wood strip was still matched.

John

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Cheater Strips
Brad Birlew -- 1/31/2002, 2:20 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/1/2002, 1:03 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips - how do they look?
Shawn Baker -- 2/1/2002, 5:24 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips - how do they look?
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/4/2002, 9:17 am
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
John Monfoe -- 2/1/2002, 5:39 am
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
Greg Hughes -- 1/31/2002, 9:01 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
Brad Birlew -- 2/1/2002, 12:41 pm
Re: Try Hot Air
Shawn Baker -- 2/1/2002, 12:48 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
!RUSS -- 1/31/2002, 8:22 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips *Pic*
Ben Staley -- 1/31/2002, 5:32 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
Terry Hanson -- 1/31/2002, 8:02 pm
Re: Strip: Cheater Strips
Ben Staley -- 1/31/2002, 3:21 pm