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Thanks The original decks are long gone. Mostly rotted away. The new ply has very thin surface veneers, I would hesitate to call it ply, more thinly veneered panel. It is all that is available here, even the expensive european plywood has extremely thin surface veneers. I doubt any serious refinishi...

I finally have decks cut for the jolly boat (3 years isn't too bad.... About a panel every 5 months). I do not like the pasty brown/honey colour of okoume ply, it completely lacks character. I have dyed some wood close to the original colour (estimated from the underside of the tank decks) and quite...

apologies for littering but I can't seem to edit the previous post... Transom repair http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt213/rlmungo/IMG_0469.jpg When wet the lower part goes very dark, the upper part stays about the same. Both are real mahogany, the lower is original. The upper is actually a 3/8 i...

Ed I am a pencil neck, but even taking that into account it's very dense wood. I have no idea if it is really mahogany, the name associated with wood does not appear to have to bear much resemblance to it's true origins. (A style of nomenclature the fishing industry has taken to heart) The building ...

Michael

I forget what I was going to say,...

but I returned the straight people and brought the wood home.

I regretfully pass by a Lee Valley store every day on the way home from work, full of beautiful tempting unaffordable veritas tools. Until a few days ago, seconds on sale at ridiculous prices, far cheaper than used tools of the stanley quality. I can't find the reason for being seconds, so a block p...

Pretty common approach on canoe paddles as well as stitch and glue boats. For my kayak I just made very thick epoxy/wood dust mix, rolled a rope and put it along the keel. Just make sure where you put it is very wet with epoxy. Mush it in well so no air, shape it sort of, let it cure and sand. Somew...

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Y Flyer, looks like 7 pieces of plywood, rather stoutly built http://www.moesmarineservice.com/?p=815.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....

Thanks all. I will have to contemplate my priorities What about the screw holes? should they be filled? I would think any void is a potential for future problems. Does anyone know what the wood used for gunwales and longitudinal beams is on a jollyboat. It sure looks like sitka spruce (fine grain pa...

My jollyboat has about 450 screws in the deck. When replacing the deck is there any reason to screw a deck on if it is glued with epoxy? I actually like how the screws look, but I will likely have to fill 450 screw holes before reusing screws. Any opinions on the structural value of screws, suggesti...

it's far too soft for oak. About the same density as spruce? maybe a hardish pine?

bought a hunk of mahogany but it sure is pale compared to what is on the boat, almost orange, bit disapointing as it wasn't cheap. Suppose it might turn more red as it oxidizes.

don't know what the gunwhales are, they are original. Pale almost white wood, very straight grain, goes a very pale gold/yellow with varnish. The wood is pretty soft. Being on this side of the atlantic I assumed ash, but it is too soft for that. Maybe it is sycamore? Regretfully your sycamore and ou...

citristrip didn't work for me. Star10 did on varnish and paint, but not the brown stuff on my boat (don't know what it was, a deep brown, hard as hell, no chemical seemed to affect it, heat made it into a thick gummy???, in the end I sanded it off). Star10 is kind of complicated as it works as two c...

Thanks for the replies. It was a profound failure. The wood bent, looked good overnight but over the next night the long side of the arc came apart in places. The grain of the wood just doesn't run parallel to the arc (or anything, it is all over the place) so it pulls apart where the grain intersec...