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Re: Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
By:Bill Mayberry
Date: 5/27/2011, 11:54 pm

: I live in the land of red and yellow cedar and have used both for
: gunnels on skin on frame kayaks . They both work but my
: favourite gunnel wood is spruce from the 1 x 4 pile , less

Well, I think I'm converted.....

You'd think with all the reading and surfing I did before starting that I'd know to use something like spruce...... I agree totally with all the observations about cedar. I am using some pretty tight growth ring cedar, that is pretty hard/dense/strong....but it is cedar.

Tomorrow I'm off to check the spruce pile at the local lumber yard. No use building a crap kayak...... Good grief, am I ever going to start building.....:)

Thanks for the input Bruce,

Bill

Messages In This Thread

Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
Bill Mayberry -- 5/26/2011, 8:52 am
Re: Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
David Bynoe -- 5/26/2011, 10:27 am
Re: Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
Bill Mayberry -- 5/26/2011, 1:54 pm
Re: Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
Roger -- 5/26/2011, 12:41 pm
Re: Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
Bill Mayberry -- 5/26/2011, 1:18 pm
What other species are available?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 5/26/2011, 9:49 pm
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Mayberry -- 5/26/2011, 11:12 pm
Re: What other species are available?
ancient kayaker -- 5/27/2011, 12:18 am
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Mayberry -- 5/27/2011, 7:28 pm
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Hamm -- 5/27/2011, 8:30 am
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Mayberry -- 5/27/2011, 2:16 pm
Re: What other species are available?
David Bynoe -- 5/27/2011, 11:56 am
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Mayberry -- 5/27/2011, 2:18 pm
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Hamm -- 5/27/2011, 11:17 pm
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Mayberry -- 5/27/2011, 11:56 pm
Re: What other species are available?
Bill Hamm -- 5/28/2011, 12:02 am
Re: What other species are available?
Kenneth Sutherland -- 5/31/2011, 7:30 am
Re: Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
West -- 5/27/2011, 11:17 pm
Re: Material: 15' Clear Cedar for gunwales
Bill Mayberry -- 5/27/2011, 11:54 pm