: My wife dragged me to a business in Rochester that recycles material from old
: houses. Their market is people who want vintage door knobs and windows,
: etc.

: As of late I've been looking for clear cedar boards for my kayak building
: project, but have not found any. The boards I find are full of knots, and
: expensive.

: At this recycling store I found eight perfectly clear six foot boards that
: were assembled in as a box, perhaps to be placed around pipes in a house
: (a guess) to hide them. They are tongue and groove and because of the way
: they are held together I get a 3/4 by 4 1/2 by 6 foot board from each, but
: the cost was only ten dollars.

: The joys of a junk yard.

: Three of the eight are flat sawed.

: What difficulties will I have dealing with quarter sawed boards 3/4"
: thick?

I accidentially ended up with a bunch of flat sawn strips (my Dad ripped the strips and didn't know...). I was so excited to start stripping, that i didnt motice until the hull was finished.

The pattern is different, and some (if not most) of the flat-sawn strips were not suited for other than light bending. The visual result is - if nothing else - different (i say great), but they didn't sand easily.

Nobody have ever noticed - people just think it looks great :-)

Jesper,
Copenhagen, DK