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2 boats with door skins
By:Jay Babina
Date: 9/12/2012, 2:43 pm
In Response To: S&G: Plywood (Charles Robinson)

I have done 5 S&Gs. 3 with Okume and 2 with luan door skins.
Okume bends easier in both direction and the door skins has a easy direction and a very stiff direction.
With the last S&G, the door skins had voids everywhere to the point that I gave up trying to cut around them and just used it all. You put a drop light behind the panel and you can see the voids.
I think I paid something like $8 for a 4 x 10

The big question is how strong? Who knows? If I thought it would be unsafe, I would not have used it. I think, considering the small expanses of wood and with a layer of glass on both sides, it's more than strong enough.
If anything the Okume is much more puncture resistant and just way nicer to work with. Sometimes I would bevel an edge o the luan and a chunk of veneer would come off - things like that. But I believe the boat could handle quite a beating on the water.

If you coat a scrap of luan door skin with 4 oz on both sides and try to break it or puncture it, you would find out that it's tough. But it is crappy wood, period.

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Plywood
Charles Robinson -- 9/11/2012, 9:38 am
Re: S&G: Plywood
John Abercrombie -- 9/11/2012, 12:09 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
Mike Bielski -- 9/11/2012, 2:50 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
John Messinger -- 9/11/2012, 5:40 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
Charles Robinson -- 9/11/2012, 7:28 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
Dan Caouette -- 9/11/2012, 7:47 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
John Messinger -- 9/11/2012, 9:24 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
Dan Caouette -- 9/12/2012, 6:10 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
Rob -- 9/12/2012, 8:35 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
ancient kayaker -- 9/11/2012, 6:10 pm
Re: S&G: Plywood
Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2012, 1:51 am
Re: S&G: Plywood
Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2012, 1:53 am
Re: S&G: Plywood
Charles Robinson -- 9/12/2012, 8:05 am
Re: S&G: Plywood
John VanBuren -- 9/12/2012, 6:31 am
2 boats with door skins
Jay Babina -- 9/12/2012, 2:43 pm
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Charles Robinson -- 9/12/2012, 3:34 pm
Re: 2 boats with door skins
ancient kayaker -- 9/12/2012, 10:55 pm
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Charles Robinson -- 9/13/2012, 2:07 pm
Re: 2 boats with door skins
woodman -- 9/13/2012, 7:53 pm
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Bill Hamm -- 9/13/2012, 1:42 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Mike Bielski -- 9/13/2012, 8:43 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Bill Hamm -- 9/16/2012, 2:08 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Mike Bielski -- 9/12/2012, 6:14 pm
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Jay Babina -- 9/14/2012, 8:13 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Bill Hamm -- 9/14/2012, 9:40 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Mike Bielski -- 9/14/2012, 11:15 pm
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Charlie -- 9/17/2012, 11:35 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Bill Hamm -- 9/18/2012, 1:30 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
jay Babina -- 9/18/2012, 8:12 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
Charlie -- 9/18/2012, 9:27 am
Re: 2 boats with door skins
ancient kayaker -- 9/18/2012, 10:28 am
Re: S&G: World Panel
Charlie -- 9/15/2012, 3:50 pm
Re: S&G: World Panel
Charles Robinson -- 9/15/2012, 6:09 pm
Re: S&G: World Panel
Sodbuster------WebKitFormBoundary6pLaVD9X7Zfw4+Pi- -- 9/16/2012, 9:50 am