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Re: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions?
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 11/9/2016, 4:34 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions? (Steve Solomon)

Nice thing about poplar and pine is they're readily available and cheap! Not too hard to get my hands on maple and oak either, but not sure if they offer any particular advantage color-wise and are probably harder to bend, right?

Basswood is another possibility if you have a good lumberyard nearby. Not extremely cheap, but the color tends to be quite uniform, and it's easy to bend and machine, and readily available in long boards.
Maple and oak would be too hard and heavy for me to consider.
Poplar can be a bit 'green', especially when hit with epoxy IME. You definitely want to give a full test (epoxy+varnish) if you decide to try poplar.
Yellow cedar (a.k.a. Alaska cypress) is a lovely wood, but not available everywhere.

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Strip: Accent strip material suggestions?
Steve Solomon -- 11/9/2016, 8:56 am
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Justin -- 11/9/2016, 9:30 am
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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