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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales: My two cents worth
By:Rick Tatum
Date: 9/30/2003, 8:04 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Gunwales (Ronnie)

Hi,

For what it is worth, I live in redwood country (northern california) and I make my living as an aerial logger. Really good clear tight grained redwood mostly comes from salvage logs, and you can expect to pay a premium. Gonna cost you you alot for redwood suited to SOF frame building. That being said, my first SOF project will make use of redwood, simply because I have it on hand at no cost to myself. The minuses are that redwood is brittle, and is absolutely not suited for steam bending. The upside is that it is rot resistant in the extreme (old growth heartwood) and light weight. My two cents worth.

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