From: Gerald Maroske <gumaroske@email.uni-kiel.de>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: baidarka PakYak update
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:02:49 +0100
Message-Id: <99020312265700.00397@elvis.gpi.uni-kiel.de>
>I hope to begin building one in a few weeks, and I'll update everyone on
>the progress. Now to try and find out what the heck "Baltic Birch
>plywood" is...
Hello Charles,
for me living on the edge of the Baltic Sea its a must to answer here. My
birch-plywood is multiplexed, that means it has 6 layers on 3mm. 4 in one and 2
in the rectangular direction. 5mm has 10 layers (6 + 4). The outermost and the
to layers in the middle have the same grain direction. It is waterproof glued
and the type I describe here is known as "aircraft plywood" in Germany. Comes in
dimension 1.5m to 1.5m and thicknesses I know of are 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2, 3 and
5mm
The only retailer I know, who imports this great variety directly from Finnland
to Germany is
Adolf Fette
Porgesring 12a
Hamburg
There are weaker types of birch-plywood available, with less layers per mm but
I prefered building my boomerangs out of the strong type. Maybe the
boomerang-builders in the new world can give you a good address to get this
stuff from. Another source might be traditional aircraft-shops.
Gerald
-- Gerald Maroske Phone: 0431 / 1 66 34 Wörthstr. 36 email: gumaroske@email.uni-kiel.de 24116 Kiel http://134.245.86.198/Kayak/index.html Germany