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Re: Tools: How to tell red oak from white oak
By:Brian Nystrom
Date: 1/1/2015, 12:28 pm
In Response To: Re: Tools: How to tell red oak from white oak (Bill Mayberry)

Using white oak has definite benefits for oak-planked vessels, but red oak works just fine for ribs and coamings in kayaks. I've used it on all three of mine. The quality of the wood is more important than that species, assuming of course that one is using a species that can be steam bent.

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Tools: Steam bending in a plastic bag...
Bill Mayberry -- 12/30/2014, 8:16 pm
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scottbaxter -- 12/30/2014, 9:08 pm
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Rich W -- 12/30/2014, 9:27 pm
Re: Tools: How to tell red oak from white oak
Bill Mayberry -- 12/30/2014, 9:37 pm
Re: Tools: How to tell red oak from white oak
Brian Nystrom -- 1/1/2015, 12:28 pm
Re: Tools: How to tell red oak from white oak
Bill Hamm -- 1/1/2015, 8:38 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 12/31/2014, 9:14 am
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Ken Blanton -- 12/31/2014, 12:27 pm
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Kudzu -- 12/31/2014, 12:31 pm
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Ken Blanton -- 12/31/2014, 12:49 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 12/31/2014, 7:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/1/2015, 12:45 am
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wanderfalk -- 12/30/2014, 11:31 pm
Bagging in the Archives . . . .
mick allen -- 12/31/2014, 5:25 am
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Jay Babina -- 12/31/2014, 4:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/1/2015, 8:49 am