: I am getting ready to build my next kayak. I intend to build a s&g with a
: strip deck. Any opinions on bead and cove vs bevel? This will be my first
: time using strip building.

: Dave

Cove and bead are counterproductive for decks, or so most posters here agree these days. For my decks I ripped S3S cedar, and cut a 10-degree bevel in the shaggy side. When stripping, I mostly mated bevel-side to straight-side, to produce a shallow arc, but occasionally went bevel-to-bevel, oriented to cancel any canting of the strips, in flatter areas, and may have used bevel-to-bevel, oriented to produce an included angle of 20 degrees in very curvy areas, but don't really think so. (It could be done, of course.) The main benefits are that you can use lots of pressure to make tights seams (no delecate cove edges), yout you have no surprise gaps appearing when sanding, and all seams are dead straight, without any wander due to sanding deeper into cove joints. I also used the same saw-beveled strips on the hull to good effect, but that's another story.

--S