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Re: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions? *PIC*
By:jaybabina
Date: 11/9/2016, 3:34 pm
In Response To: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions? (Steve Solomon)

Here's one with pine an cedar. I have always used pine for accents and it's held it's contrast fine. Contrast is exactly that. If your dark wood next to it is dark then the light wood stands out. All pine is not alike. Search for the whitest pine you can find. In my experience, popular is not that white. All woods darken with UV exposure and age and varnish turns dark too. You could go extreme and get special non-yellowing coatings and go that route but generally for my building, regular woods have done the job nicely. Holly is the whitest of whites but if you want to go nuts trying to find that, go ahead. Yes tape will work but I don't find it necessary or harmonizing with wood building unless its a painted boat.

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Strip: Accent strip material suggestions?
Steve Solomon -- 11/9/2016, 8:56 am
Re: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions?
Justin -- 11/9/2016, 9:30 am
Re: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions? *PIC*
jaybabina -- 11/9/2016, 3:34 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 11/9/2016, 4:10 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/9/2016, 4:34 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/9/2016, 5:29 pm
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jaybabina -- 11/9/2016, 8:22 pm
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SCOTT S -- 11/12/2016, 3:02 pm
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Curtis Fisher -- 11/9/2016, 4:20 pm
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jaybabina -- 11/9/2016, 8:26 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 11/9/2016, 4:55 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/10/2016, 5:26 am
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Justin -- 11/10/2016, 7:18 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/10/2016, 8:50 am
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Steve Solomon -- 11/10/2016, 12:22 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/10/2016, 1:28 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 11/10/2016, 1:49 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/10/2016, 2:57 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 11/10/2016, 4:08 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/10/2016, 4:18 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/10/2016, 5:24 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 11/10/2016, 5:47 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/10/2016, 7:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/11/2016, 12:11 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/11/2016, 12:54 am
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anewhouse -- 11/11/2016, 7:09 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/12/2016, 12:52 am