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catsittingstillDay before yesterday I called around, checking on wood availability. Yes, Anderson Lumber has its usual white pine grade D and better (which is frankly pretty darn good in white pine, much better than the same grade in cedar), lovely pink and cream colorway (pity it doesn't stay), 1 x 6 x 14 feet long for 25$ a board.
Jeffries Woodworks had 1 x 8 CEDAR. GRADE A. 2 19 foot boards and 5 20 foot boards! For 4 dollars a lineal foot. They would even cut it and sell me just 14 feet if I wanted.
After agonizing for a couple of days, this morning I 1) bought 16 feet of one of the cedar boards (after taxes it came to almost 70$. Ow.) and 2) bought four of the white pine boards.
This actually gives me more wood than I need, but I'm thinking of it as an investment. Who am I kidding? This is not going to be my last boat. Part of the reason I bought 16 feet is my next boat may be longer.
Then I proceeded to Maryville High and Martin kindly helped me rip them all into strips about 1/32nd over .250 inch. This way we can plane them down in the planer and get consistent thickness, which believe me makes fairing the boat easier. While we were at it we also ripped some beautifully colored cherry I had bought months ago for precisely this build into pieces slightly over 3/8 inch thick. The cherry was inexpensive (for cherry) because it had lots of splits in it, but I think I can scarf them out and make some gunwales that will look really sharp against the white pine.
I came back home just before dinner, persuaded Kip to make dinner, ate, cleaned up the kitchen from two days of neglect plus the soup boiling over because that's how Kip makes soup, and ran out to the store to get gas (because I'm going back to Maryville for the morning class and need to leave the house by 7:15 am) and milk because the last of it went into the soup (which was good soup--only a little of it was lost to the stove.)
Now I shall have my snack and go to bed, because, you know, 7:15 am.
Good night.
Jeffries Woodworks had 1 x 8 CEDAR. GRADE A. 2 19 foot boards and 5 20 foot boards! For 4 dollars a lineal foot. They would even cut it and sell me just 14 feet if I wanted.
After agonizing for a couple of days, this morning I 1) bought 16 feet of one of the cedar boards (after taxes it came to almost 70$. Ow.) and 2) bought four of the white pine boards.
This actually gives me more wood than I need, but I'm thinking of it as an investment. Who am I kidding? This is not going to be my last boat. Part of the reason I bought 16 feet is my next boat may be longer.
Then I proceeded to Maryville High and Martin kindly helped me rip them all into strips about 1/32nd over .250 inch. This way we can plane them down in the planer and get consistent thickness, which believe me makes fairing the boat easier. While we were at it we also ripped some beautifully colored cherry I had bought months ago for precisely this build into pieces slightly over 3/8 inch thick. The cherry was inexpensive (for cherry) because it had lots of splits in it, but I think I can scarf them out and make some gunwales that will look really sharp against the white pine.
I came back home just before dinner, persuaded Kip to make dinner, ate, cleaned up the kitchen from two days of neglect plus the soup boiling over because that's how Kip makes soup, and ran out to the store to get gas (because I'm going back to Maryville for the morning class and need to leave the house by 7:15 am) and milk because the last of it went into the soup (which was good soup--only a little of it was lost to the stove.)
Now I shall have my snack and go to bed, because, you know, 7:15 am.
Good night.
