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Skin-on-Frame: Pallet-built kayak
By:Mike Kelly
Date: 10/2/2013, 8:34 pm

Hello! I am new to this forum, so please bear with me. My apologies if this has been addressed in a previous post. I would like to build my first skin-on-frame kayak, a baidarka, over the winter, and would like to build it entirely from wood salvaged from shipping pallets. I have a steady supply of pallets from work, ranging from terrible (firewood quality) to good softwood and hardwood (usually oak).

I can salvage enough oak for the ribs. The pallet stringers (or runners) can be shaped to make deck beams. I can use scarf joints to build gunwales and hull stringers that are long enough. I can plug any nail holes. My question is, can there be too many scarf joints for a given length of gunwale or stringer? How much will it effect the flex of the pieces? Should the scarfs be glued (I was thinking Titebond III), or lashed, or both?

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Cheers,

Mike

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Skin-on-Frame: Pallet-built kayak
Mike Kelly -- 10/2/2013, 8:34 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/2/2013, 10:25 pm
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Paul Montgomery -- 10/2/2013, 10:43 pm
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Mike Kelly -- 10/2/2013, 11:11 pm
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Paul Montgomery -- 10/3/2013, 1:39 am
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Jeff Horton -- 10/3/2013, 7:53 am
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Greg Galloway -- 10/3/2013, 8:30 am
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Jeff Horton -- 10/3/2013, 11:13 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 10/3/2013, 1:01 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 10/3/2013, 1:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/3/2013, 11:57 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 10/4/2013, 9:31 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/6/2013, 12:12 am
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John Messinger -- 10/7/2013, 6:46 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/8/2013, 12:51 am
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Matt Jakubek -- 10/8/2013, 9:25 am
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John Messinger -- 10/8/2013, 10:56 am
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Matt Jakubek -- 10/8/2013, 11:04 am
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ancient kayaker -- 10/9/2013, 9:38 am
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Matt Jakubek -- 10/9/2013, 9:46 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/9/2013, 6:52 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/8/2013, 12:04 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 10/8/2013, 12:55 pm
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John Messinger -- 10/8/2013, 8:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/9/2013, 1:32 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/9/2013, 1:30 am
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Mark Vander Horck -- 10/10/2013, 2:37 pm
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Mike Kelly -- 10/4/2013, 9:39 pm
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Paul Davies -- 10/3/2013, 2:11 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 10/3/2013, 7:04 pm
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GeorgeinVa -- 10/4/2013, 10:50 am
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Mike Kelly -- 10/4/2013, 9:58 pm
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Mike Kelly -- 10/4/2013, 9:55 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 10/4/2013, 11:34 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 10/6/2013, 8:12 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/7/2013, 1:07 am
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Mike Kelly -- 10/4/2013, 9:48 pm
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Mike Kelly -- 10/2/2013, 10:44 pm