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Strip: making Wood strips
By:Darren Edwards
Date: 7/13/2014, 8:52 am

Hello

I am really stoked about beginning my first kayak build. My question is I have a large number of 4 x 4 Western Red cedar posts around 7 feet in length, some 6 ish. I probably have around 20 of them in total. In order to save money, and put them to some kind of use I was thinking of ripping them down into strips and using them. The only issue I can see is that I will not have really long strips from this which will require a lot of scarfed joints to make up the length. I thought I could paint the lower half of the Kayak in order to hide all the scarfed joints there should it turn out to be unsightly. I have seen some examples done in that fashion that I think look quite sharp. It really makes the deck stand out.

Will my table saw be good enough to rip the posts into planks and the planks into strips.

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Strip: making Wood strips
Darren Edwards -- 7/13/2014, 8:52 am
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ancient kayaker -- 7/13/2014, 10:05 am
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Kurt Maurer -- 7/13/2014, 10:58 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/13/2014, 10:36 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/13/2014, 11:24 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/13/2014, 1:57 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 7/13/2014, 2:29 pm
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Don T. -- 7/13/2014, 9:31 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 7/14/2014, 12:50 pm
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Jay Babina -- 7/14/2014, 7:55 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/14/2014, 11:48 am
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Jay Babina -- 7/15/2014, 6:45 am
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Darren edwards -- 7/14/2014, 10:44 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/14/2014, 7:21 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 7/14/2014, 11:35 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 7/14/2014, 11:40 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/15/2014, 12:32 am
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Mike Bielski -- 7/15/2014, 12:46 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/15/2014, 3:46 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/15/2014, 5:57 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/15/2014, 12:43 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/16/2014, 2:12 am
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ancient kayaker -- 7/15/2014, 7:51 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/16/2014, 2:14 am
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ancient kayaker -- 7/16/2014, 7:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/20/2014, 1:01 am
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Darren.edwards -- 7/21/2014, 8:17 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/21/2014, 9:50 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 7/21/2014, 9:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/22/2014, 12:22 am
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ancient kayaker -- 7/22/2014, 10:17 am