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Re: Strip: kayak size and design
By:Etienne Muller
Date: 6/3/2008, 6:06 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: kayak size and design (Andrew Didio)

: Thanks Greg,

: The Great Auk looks like it is exactly what I am looking for. I will most
: likely just buy the forms and go from there. As an able beginner, is
: milling your own bead and cove more trouble than it's worth? I have read
: horror stories of glue-up problems if they arent perfect. I understand
: that top and bottom stock feeds, before and after the cove bit will
: eliminate some human error. Is the savings in wood worth the trouble? What
: is the alternative, squared strips? Thanks.

If you go back through some of the pages in this forum you will find loads of comments and experience of building with of bead and cove as well as without.

A search will deliver some older threads as well.

I don't bother myself.

Et

Messages In This Thread

Strip: kayak size and design
Andrew Didio -- 6/3/2008, 1:28 pm
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Greg H -- 6/3/2008, 2:24 pm
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Andrew Didio -- 6/3/2008, 4:03 pm
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Etienne Muller -- 6/3/2008, 6:06 pm
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Dave -- 6/4/2008, 3:06 am
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Mike Savage -- 6/4/2008, 5:47 am
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Dave -- 6/4/2008, 8:16 am
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Andrew Didio -- 6/4/2008, 8:45 am
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Bill Hamm -- 6/4/2008, 2:20 pm
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Etienne Muller -- 6/4/2008, 4:03 pm
Re: Strip: kayak size and design
Etienne Muller -- 6/4/2008, 4:09 pm