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Re: Tools: Is your plane sharp?
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 2/10/2013, 3:46 pm
In Response To: Re: Tools: Is your plane sharp? (Rod Tait (Orca Boats))

And to think that piece of wood is probably a piece of old growth, beautiful, tight grain, sitka spruce that came from north america and I can't even get anymore because all the good stuff is going overseas as logs driving the price so high that no one will pay for it here.

Apparently (according to my reading of some websites) they only use Port Orford 'cedar' for those planing competitions as most woods don't produce shavings that thin, no matter how sharp the blade.

Do you really have trouble finding Sitka spruce? Westwind in Sidney has spar-grade Sitka listed @ $8-14 /bdft.

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Tools: Is your plane sharp?
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/8/2013, 5:52 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 2/8/2013, 6:30 pm
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Kevin -- 2/8/2013, 7:01 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 2/8/2013, 7:42 pm
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Paul Montgomery -- 2/9/2013, 1:56 am
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Etienne Muller -- 2/9/2013, 3:51 am
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ancient kayaker -- 2/9/2013, 2:40 pm
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 2/10/2013, 12:01 pm
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Jay Babina -- 2/10/2013, 12:28 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 2/10/2013, 3:46 pm
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 2/10/2013, 11:08 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/11/2013, 1:58 am
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Jay Babina -- 2/11/2013, 8:41 am
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Al Edie -- 2/11/2013, 10:28 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/12/2013, 1:55 am