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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 6/10/2015, 2:49 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails? (Thomas Duncan)

That'll work if you have a big saw that can rip boards a few inches thick at a time (ripping on edge a chunk of 2x12 to get two book matched gunwales) most saws won't like that.

Bigger pieces of wood though are a good idea, I often look at 1x6 or 1x8 boards for the same reason.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
cpoulton -- 6/9/2015, 1:03 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Bill Hamm -- 6/9/2015, 3:44 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
cpoulton -- 6/9/2015, 10:13 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Bill Hamm -- 6/9/2015, 10:37 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
cpoulton -- 6/9/2015, 11:03 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Bill Hamm -- 6/9/2015, 4:10 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Thomas Duncan -- 6/10/2015, 2:40 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Bill Hamm -- 6/10/2015, 2:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Thomas Duncan -- 6/10/2015, 10:42 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Thomas Duncan -- 6/9/2015, 10:17 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Deck rails?
Thomas Duncan -- 6/9/2015, 10:18 am