Hi,

I have some western red cedar strips, around 40mm x 3.5mm (1.5" x 1/8" I think that is). Some I have ripped down to 15mm wide strips for a kayak, but it's time consuming and they're too thin to bead & cove.

So for some of the remainder I was hoping to use them on a couple of S&G designs - being able to utilise the wider strips to form the panel shapes. My initial idea is to trace out the panel shapes on ply as per normal, but use .8mm - 1mm thick ply and epoxy the strips onto this to make a composite around 5mm thick. After sanding, the panels would be around 4mm, the standard for most S&G designs.

A little heavier due to the epoxy (or I could use yellow glue which may save weight?) but I assume the composite panels would still be pliable enough to bend into shape. I wouldn't be doing and "highly tortured" shapes - one in mind is the Kaholo SUP by CLC.

Any thoughts on this as a way to use the strips? Or should I do similar but just edge-glue them flat? Or give up on the idea as too hard or too heavy?

Interested in the thoughts of others...

Thanks,
Darren
Australia