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Re: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions?
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 11/10/2016, 7:11 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Accent strip material suggestions? (Steve Solomon)

What are your "wood-look" projects?

I'd built a good handful of woodstrip canoes before I got interested in kayaks.
They were all wood-look, 'conversation at every fuel stop' boats.
For kayaks I built an Outer Island with some not-very-involved wood stripes on the deck, and that Coaster-style kayak in the pic I posted. It was built from forms I lofted from the cross-sections that were published in SeaKayaker when they reviewed the Coaster. It was a nice little boat. Once I got my hands on 'the real thing' Coaster, I realized the difference, and sold the strip imitation.

As opposed to the (very nice) painted ones

Thanks!
It's funny; I get more compliments on my painted boats than I ever did on the wood ones. I think it's because it's easier to add 'commercial looking' details like hatch recesses and deck fittings when I can hide the mistakes under filler, and paint!

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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
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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