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Re: Material: Anyone use Marine Plywood by Homeste
By:Charlie
Date: 9/15/2009, 4:09 pm

Joubert is name-brand stuff. Be happy as hell you can get BS1088 with 0nly a 4 hour drive. There are plenty of places in the US where it's Home Despot or some stuff imported from China where they can turn any species of wood into okoume or any other species you prefer.
Before Homestead was around I drove from Cleveland to Toronto (300 miles one way)to get 2 sheets of 3mm Bruyzeel and was happy to do it.

: Thanks for the response Kim, good to hear of their quality. Yeah, probably
: splitting hairs but that's my engineers mind thinking and thought their
: measurements were literal. Went back to their site and found this
: statement: "Please note: Measurements in inches are nominal. Actual
: measurement is in mm." So, my statement in my first post was
: premature.

: Sounds like it may be worth the drive to pick up my supplies.

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Material: Anyone use Marine Plywood by Homestead? *LINK*
Jeff Schaber -- 9/14/2009, 3:29 pm
Re: Material: Anyone use Marine Plywood by Homeste
Kudzu -- 9/15/2009, 8:58 am
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Mrkim -- 9/14/2009, 10:05 pm
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Jeff Schaber -- 9/14/2009, 10:16 pm
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Charlie -- 9/15/2009, 4:09 pm
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Doug S -- 9/16/2009, 7:42 am
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Mrkim -- 9/14/2009, 10:24 pm
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Jeff Schaber -- 9/14/2009, 8:14 pm