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Re: Redwood Should Work.... but..
By:Rehd
Date: 9/30/2003, 7:54 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales (Ronnie)

: Has anyone used redwood for the gunwales on a Greenland kayak? I will be
: using Robert Morris and Chris Cunningham books. I have not decided whether
: I am going to use dowels (as per Morris) or mortise and tenon (as per
: Cunningham) for the deck beams. I feel strongly both ways. I will be using
: some cypress for a lot of the parts. May even try bending ribs out of
: cypress.

I'm sure that redwood will work, but I'd stay away from 1" X in dried stock. Redwood, being expensive, has been cut way under the normal standards these days.
I've seen some as thin as 5/8" and that would make it pretty fragile.
If you can find 5/4 material I'd say go with that. I used to get a lot of 5/4 B grade and it was pretty strong... approx. 1" thick.

Will make quite a contrast to the cypress.

Rehd

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales
Ronnie -- 9/30/2003, 2:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales
Brian Nystrom -- 10/1/2003, 12:39 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales
Ronnie -- 10/1/2003, 9:31 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales
sing -- 10/1/2003, 5:09 am
Why scarf?
Brian Nystrom -- 10/1/2003, 12:35 pm
Re: Why scarf?
sing -- 10/1/2003, 1:14 pm
Why scarf? It reduces your costs considerably
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/1/2003, 11:57 pm
Apples and oranges
Brian Nystrom -- 10/2/2003, 12:32 pm
Apples, Oranges, Tutti Fruiti ? :)
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/3/2003, 12:00 am
Re: Apples, Oranges, Tutti Fruiti ? :)
Brian Nystrom -- 10/3/2003, 3:40 pm
Thanks All For Scarfing Suggesitons.
sing -- 10/2/2003, 5:27 am
scarfing is not hard..
Frank Eberdt -- 10/1/2003, 2:10 pm
Re: Why scarf?
Erik -- 10/1/2003, 1:52 pm
Re: Why scarf?
Brian Nystrom -- 10/2/2003, 12:34 pm
Re: Why scarf?
Ketil Valle -- 10/2/2003, 2:20 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales (Redwood)
Tom Yost -- 10/1/2003, 9:30 am
Re: You do WHAT???
Scott Ferguson -- 10/1/2003, 1:29 pm
Re: You do WHAT??? *Pic*
Tom Yost -- 10/2/2003, 10:43 am
Re: You do WHAT??? *LINK*
Scott Ferguson -- 10/2/2003, 1:29 pm
Re: You do WHAT???
Tom Yost -- 10/2/2003, 6:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales: My two cents worth
Rick Tatum -- 9/30/2003, 8:04 pm
Re: Redwood Should Work.... but..
Rehd -- 9/30/2003, 7:54 pm