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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/13/2016, 12:12 am
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gunwale *PIC* (Orcabait)

Btw, generally with Yost boats the direction of the grain for bending doesn't matter, the bends are gentle.

Bending with flat sawn wood is easier to bend, bent the other way is stronger, neither matters with these boats, they are over built.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gunwale *PIC*
Orcabait -- 10/12/2016, 4:37 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun
Marc Upchurch -- 10/12/2016, 6:02 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun
Doug Lowthian -- 10/12/2016, 7:53 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun *PIC*
Curtis Fisher -- 10/13/2016, 3:38 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun
Orcabait -- 10/14/2016, 10:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun
Orcabait -- 10/14/2016, 10:50 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun *PIC*
Curtis Fisher -- 10/14/2016, 2:57 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Which way to bend stringers/gun
Bill Hamm -- 10/13/2016, 12:12 am