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Re: Material: Douglas Fir for kayaks
By:Garvin
Date: 10/10/2010, 10:36 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: Douglas Fir for kayaks (G New)

: You need to let it dry properly before maching any strips from it.
: The wood may move around (shrink, bend, twist, etc.) during the
: drying process and this would ruin your strips because the would
: all end up distorted. Also working wet wood is very hard on saw
: blades, router bits, etc. Look on the internet for wood drying
: techniques to find out how to "sticker the wood" while
: it is drying. Either that or you are going to have some twisted
: wood when it drys. I imagine this is one reason why the wood is
: so inexpensive.

: Greg

They have all stages of "dryness" in the warehouse, i work with the wet stuff but i can get the dry wood with my discount too. thanks for the info!

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Material: Douglas Fir for kayaks
Garvin -- 10/7/2010, 8:28 pm
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Garvin -- 10/11/2010, 7:51 pm
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Mark Seilis -- 10/11/2010, 12:40 pm
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Foster -- 10/11/2010, 11:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/9/2010, 12:35 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 10/10/2010, 12:13 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/11/2010, 2:21 am
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Garvin -- 10/10/2010, 4:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/11/2010, 2:24 am
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Mike Bielski -- 10/11/2010, 1:30 am
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Garvin -- 10/11/2010, 7:47 pm
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G New -- 10/10/2010, 7:36 pm
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Garvin -- 10/10/2010, 10:36 pm
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dbynoe -- 10/8/2010, 1:48 pm
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Garvin -- 10/8/2010, 11:40 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 10/10/2010, 12:05 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/11/2010, 5:48 pm
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Johne -- 10/8/2010, 12:11 pm
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Jay Babina -- 10/8/2010, 11:12 am
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Mike Bielski -- 10/8/2010, 8:02 am
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Robert W -- 10/8/2010, 7:38 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 10/8/2010, 7:16 am