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Re: Skin-on-Frame: handmade teak kayak frame
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 1/19/2016, 1:56 am
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: handmade teak kayak frame *PIC* (Abbey)

An instructor that taught for 20+ years should have known that you don't build kayak frames of teak.

Steam bent ribs are made of oak because it steams well but certainly not teak. And the longitudinals were made of soft wood, usually white pine.

Bill H.

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Abbey -- 1/18/2016, 5:00 pm
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Abbey -- 1/18/2016, 5:00 pm
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Ian Johnson -- 1/18/2016, 5:30 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/18/2016, 5:44 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/19/2016, 1:56 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 1/19/2016, 9:50 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/20/2016, 1:00 am
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Abbey -- 1/25/2016, 10:14 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/25/2016, 10:23 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/26/2016, 1:28 am
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dave koslow -- 1/19/2016, 10:41 am
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Abbey -- 1/25/2016, 10:15 pm