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Re: Strip: Strip-built surf ski plans
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 10/23/2013, 3:01 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Strip-built surf ski plans (Bill Hamm)

If you'll be using staples to hold the strips on, plywood works best, if you are going without staples then the material doesn't matter.

MDF tends to split with staples on the edges.


I agree. MDF is heavy smelly miserable stuff to work with as well.

I always use staples.
On my last few projects, I've used laminated pine for the station forms - it reasonable at the lumberyard/big box store- comparable to baltic birch ply, but more expensive than cheaper plywood. (Sold as shelving..)
I got 'irritated' with trying to staple into plywood that wouldn't 'hold' staples properly because of voids and crushed wood in the internal layers. I found baltic birch ply was a bit on the hard side. For me, the solid/laminated pine was ideal.

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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 5/21/2013, 10:11 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2013, 12:43 am
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Craig Robinson -- 5/23/2013, 3:44 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/5/2013, 12:48 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 7/5/2013, 2:46 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2013, 1:29 am
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Matt Jakubek -- 9/18/2013, 4:32 pm
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Matt Jakubek -- 9/23/2013, 9:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/24/2013, 1:30 am
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Björn Thomasson -- 9/24/2013, 4:30 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/24/2013, 6:25 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/24/2013, 10:17 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/25/2013, 1:37 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2013, 8:22 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/26/2013, 2:12 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/26/2013, 7:29 am
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Björn Thomasson -- 9/25/2013, 4:32 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2013, 8:28 am
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Björn Thomasson -- 9/25/2013, 10:58 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2013, 8:16 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/25/2013, 8:25 pm
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Björn Thomasson -- 9/26/2013, 3:38 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/26/2013, 9:57 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/26/2013, 2:00 pm
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Rick Crook -- 9/28/2013, 2:09 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2013, 3:11 am
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Matt Jakubek -- 9/26/2013, 11:49 pm
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Mark Vander Horck -- 9/27/2013, 12:07 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/27/2013, 12:56 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/27/2013, 2:04 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/27/2013, 6:04 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/27/2013, 2:43 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2013, 5:22 am
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Mark Vander Horck -- 9/30/2013, 1:04 pm
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Mark Vander Horck -- 9/30/2013, 2:14 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2013, 3:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/26/2013, 2:19 am
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Björn Thomasson -- 9/26/2013, 4:06 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/3/2013, 2:00 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 9/15/2013, 1:02 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/27/2013, 5:47 pm
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Matt Jakubek -- 9/27/2013, 5:53 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/28/2013, 5:08 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/27/2013, 5:59 pm
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Matt Jakubek -- 9/27/2013, 8:48 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2013, 2:50 am
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Matt Jakubek -- 9/28/2013, 10:37 am
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PeterA -- 9/30/2013, 8:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/1/2013, 12:12 am
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Björn Thomasson -- 10/1/2013, 10:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/2/2013, 1:22 am
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Björn Thomasson -- 10/2/2013, 3:48 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/2/2013, 10:23 am
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Björn Thomasson -- 10/2/2013, 11:15 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/2/2013, 2:48 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/3/2013, 2:02 am
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Craig Robinson -- 10/5/2013, 8:17 am
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PeterA -- 10/22/2013, 11:55 am
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ancient kayaker -- 10/22/2013, 1:51 pm
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PeterA -- 10/22/2013, 2:13 pm
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Paul Davies -- 10/22/2013, 2:58 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/22/2013, 4:02 pm
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PeterA -- 10/22/2013, 10:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/23/2013, 1:12 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/23/2013, 3:01 pm
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Björn Thomasson -- 10/25/2013, 6:05 pm
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PeterA -- 11/11/2013, 9:12 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/12/2013, 7:54 am
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PeterA -- 11/13/2013, 9:53 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/13/2013, 3:14 pm