At 09:10 pm 7/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >I am about to built my forth kayak and I've just begun to see that there >might be grades of okoume plywood We know it as Gaboon and I'm not surprised at differing grades. Check whether all the layers are the same thickness, cheaper may have outer layers thinner than centre layer. Meranti as mentioned by another poster is a different timber, usually a bit heavier and there are differing types, red and white. Though okoume is the wood of preference, I've not used it, we built the Mac50 from Meranti and the Mist from Fijian kauri. Gaboon would have made the Mac50 a couple of kilos lighter for another $30 - maybe we should, maybe not..... Alex . . Alex (Sandy) Ferguson Chemistry Department University of Canterbury New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 07 2000 - 20:00:24 PST
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