From: "Michael O'Flynn" <moflynn@sd23.bc.ca>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: Re: baidarka wood problems
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:22:53 -0700
Sorry -- what is "CVG fir" please?
Thanks
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From: John Reynolds <johnr63@cwix.com>
To: Baidarka <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Date: Friday, October 08, 1999 11:18 AM
Subject: baidarka wood problems
>Geez Guys & Gals all this finger jointing and scarping is taking a lot
>of time. If time = $ at any rate its got to be cheaper to get clear wood
>unless it's one or two joints even if you have to order it. You can buy
>aircraft grade Sitka Spruce 1"x 2" any length for $3.50 per lin. Ft.
>from Aircraft Spruce 800-831-2949. This seems to be overkill. I went to
>a lumber supplier not a Home Depot type store and got clear milled CVG
>fir in 16' lengths for around $10 each for my gunwales and keel. You
>just need to go where builders go to buy wood. Look in the Yellow pages
>for someone that advertises hardwoods. Another alternative source would
>be to find a millwork shop. Again check the Yellow Pages for millwork or
>Arch. millwork. A few years ago in Portland I had one of these mill some
>1 3/4 x 4" CVG fir to splice into and patch a floor on a house I was
>restoring. They did all the precise milling and it was some of the
>finest truly vertical grain quartersawn fir I've seen in pretty long
>lengths. They charged me approx. $130 for 105 lin. ft. The moral to this
>story is that you just need to look in places other than the weekend
>handyman store.
>
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