Re: Cedar Strips

[Keith <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found that it was easier to use 5/4 corner boards.  Better selection.

There is an issue with duty on cedar sometimes from Canada.  Although that may be off now with a recent ruling.  It was 28%.

Last fall for VMG, I priced out having a local milling shop with vintage machines, mill strips.  They have a small molding machine that works like the big milling machine that takes a single beam and outputs "tongue and grove" in a single pass.  Their cost was substantially lower once the knives were made.  Under .20.  And very clean.  All 16's.

I dropped it for the obvious reason.  I didn't want to take it on alone and VMG went poof.

Keith
Kanaka Creek Boatworks, Ltd
On May 18, 2005, at 10:15 AM, BDally6107@xxxxxxx wrote:

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> Michael,
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> In the Seattle area you can buy enough clear cedar 1x4 14' long corner boards (smooth on 1 side and 2 edges--used primarily on houses) to build a Swift for under $300.  You can buy them at Lowes or any of our local lumber stores (you do have to pick through it for flat surface grain so that it will be vertical grain when you slice it into 1/4" strips).  Also, you do have to run them through a thickness planner to smooth the remaining side.  If I try to buy cedar from a marine lumber outlet, the price is $800.  Both 001 and 002 were built with lumber bought at the local hardware/lumber outlets (for houses).
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> Cutting and routing the bead and cove on the strips will take a couple of days.  In markets where WR cedar is not readily available you will likely pay a big premium and purchasing the strips would per the best route to go.
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> I hope this helps,
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> Bram