: So I brought my lumber home for the strips and it turns out the
: thickness of the board was 1 1/16" thick. I went ahead and
: cut them into 3/16th thick strips. after milling the B&C, they
: came out to about 1 inch exactly. It was going to be tough to
: make the compound bends on the bow and stern . . .

Bending a 1" strip across its width needs more than double the force of a 3/4 strip. I think the ratio of width to thickness is also important: 1" is more than 5 times the 3/16" thickness, compared with x3 for the commonly used 1/4" x 3/4 strip size. Wider strips have more tendency to twist, as I found on a scale model where I used 1/8" x 5/8. But if the bend is mostly at the ends your solution is less wasteful and time-consuming than milling all the strips again . . .