: For the lower bow on Laughing Loon's baidarkas it is suggested to orient the
: center and outside pieces at 90° to each other. As well, each piece is
: 1/4" thick. This causes a slight problem for me because I don't see
: how to do this without having to buy a wide piece of hardwood. To compound
: this, even if I did get a wide piece, I would have problems planing it to
: 1/4". For example, I could combine a 4.5" wide piece (which can
: be re-sawed from 1" stock down to 1/4") with a 12" wide
: piece, but there's no way I can re-saw 12" on my table saw. Another
: orientation would require me to use a 7" and 10" wide piece,
: neither of which I could resaw. So either I'm thinking about this the
: wrong way, or I need to buy a large wide board of hardwood and rent a
: planer, or there is a company that sells small pieces of hardwood in
: 1/4" planed thicknesses?

: Forgive the ugliness of the sketch below but I think it demonstrates the
: issue I'm dealing with.
: cheers

Hi Doug,
The lamination is to minimise any tendency to warping that a solid board might suffer. If you laminate the other way, as a stack or on a form to get the curve shape, you can alternate the grain for the same effect.

With the piece on its side, the end would look a bit like this:
|\\\\||////||\\\\||////| each vertical is the edge of a strip, the slashes the grain.

Hope this makes sense,
Mike Savage
South West Cork