: I've almost finished stripping my first, also a Guillemot. I have
: *just* enough strips. I started with two planks of the following
: dimensions:
: 1 x 4.2m long x 50mm thick x 200mm wide (about 14' x 2" x
: 8") chocolate colour
: 1 x 3.4m long x 50mm thick x 150mm wide (about 11' x 2" x
: 6") blonde colour

...

: Each plank was bandsawn into two planks, each about 21mm thick
: after dressing. Each of those was then ripped into 1/4"
: strips. From memory I got 20-21 strips from each of the 200mm
: planks, and I think 14 from the 150mm planks. So all up a total
: of 41 x 14' + 28 x 11' = 574 + 308 = 882' of strips. Less than I
: would have liked but as it turned out just enough.

Well i thought I'd better reply again as I have just discovered that in fact I was a little short of strips after all. I've just bought a beautiful piece of near white cedar, 2" x 4" x 3' long, and cut a further 60' of strips from it. So don't do what I did and try to go light on the amount of timber you get!

Another tip. Where I bought the cedar, long lengths e.g. 11' - 14' are quite expensive. But short pieces of 3' or so are heaps cheaper, perhaps half the price. Looking back, I could have bought the shorter pieces, because now that I know, butt-joining short pieces is really easy.

Cheers, Ian