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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 3/24/2011, 10:11 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material (Thomas Duncan)

: My last kayak has a coaming steam bent of southern yellow pine...
: maybe not optimum, but ya do what ya gotta do... considering
: your post, I'm definitely gonna try spruce for ribs in the next
: one. I've been using spruce for stem boards, and I am
: re-skinning a year old kayak with spruce stems used hard and put
: up wet, and the stem boards are in great shape, and I don't
: think they ever really dried out in between paddles -- the ends
: were damp when I cut the skin off, and had been sitting on the
: rack for nearly a month. Had no oil or varnish either, just
: plain wood. It's pretty difficult finding the hardwood with
: requisite grain around here, but I can get good grain in spruce
: or pine everywhere. Neither are supposed to be very rot
: resistant woods.

Rot resistance really isn't required, one of the ideal gunwale woods is white pine and it's too not considered rot resistant.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Aaron McConnell -- 3/24/2011, 5:18 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Bill Hamm -- 3/24/2011, 5:22 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Thomas Duncan -- 3/24/2011, 9:22 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Bill Hamm -- 3/24/2011, 10:11 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Aaron McConnell -- 3/24/2011, 10:39 pm
rot/mildew prevention
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/25/2011, 3:53 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Mike Bielski -- 3/25/2011, 8:26 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Thomas Duncan -- 3/25/2011, 9:10 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Bill Hamm -- 3/25/2011, 11:35 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Thomas Duncan -- 3/25/2011, 1:30 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Bill Hamm -- 3/25/2011, 3:55 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Thomas Duncan -- 3/25/2011, 4:01 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Material
Bill Hamm -- 3/25/2011, 6:56 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: salt water
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/26/2011, 3:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: salt water
Bill Hamm -- 3/26/2011, 7:43 am