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Re: Material: Douglas Fir for kayaks
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/11/2010, 2:21 am
In Response To: Re: Material: Douglas Fir for kayaks (Brian Nystrom)

: One big difference is that mahogany is an absolute joy to machine.
: OTOH, when rounding the edges of Douglas fir parts on a router
: table (with appropriate featherboards), I've had fragments
: literally explode off it. Perhaps there are variations in
: Douglas fir, but the stuff I've used has just been plain nasty
: to work with. As you may have guessed, I really don't like the
: stuff.

Old growth is much better also very difficult to find.

Bill H.

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Material: Douglas Fir for kayaks
Garvin -- 10/7/2010, 8:28 pm
Re: Material: Douglas Fir for kayaks
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