Cool. I didn't know there was someone else on my friendslist with cedarstrip experience. I am very jealous of your dad's good situation with regard to cedar.
I appreciate your insights with regard to ash vs walnut. The gunwales as proposed will be a 3/8 strip of walnut next to the hull and a 3/8 strip of ash on the outside. At the moment I'm leaning toward making the inside gunwales just a 3/8 strip of ash. Since the canoe is only 13' 6" I'm not *too* worried about the weight and I think the laminated gunwales (I will bend both of them along the sheer itself to laminate them together, which if I do it right should glue the proper curve right in) will be strong as well as looking sharp.
I talked this over with Martin (my shop teacher friend who builds canoes) and he thought it would work. He has been teaching woodshop for about 20 years and seems to have a pretty good idea of what wood will and won't do, so if he's comfortable with it, I'm going to try it.
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Date: 2010-01-28 09:40 pm (UTC)I appreciate your insights with regard to ash vs walnut. The gunwales as proposed will be a 3/8 strip of walnut next to the hull and a 3/8 strip of ash on the outside. At the moment I'm leaning toward making the inside gunwales just a 3/8 strip of ash. Since the canoe is only 13' 6" I'm not *too* worried about the weight and I think the laminated gunwales (I will bend both of them along the sheer itself to laminate them together, which if I do it right should glue the proper curve right in) will be strong as well as looking sharp.
I talked this over with Martin (my shop teacher friend who builds canoes) and he thought it would work. He has been teaching woodshop for about 20 years and seems to have a pretty good idea of what wood will and won't do, so if he's comfortable with it, I'm going to try it.