And not only are there three kinds of okoume, there are two different grades of marine that I know of--BS 1088 and BS 6566. BS stands for "British Standard" 1088 has A-AA grade faces, 6566 has A-B grade faces. Both are guaranteed void-free with solid glue lines. Shawn Dave Kruger wrote: >As part of a back-channel discussion with Shawn Baker, the question of >"quality" of the marine plywood now available came up. >...different grades of Okoume... >Brunzeel... >Shelman... >"Israeli-made" *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Nov 03 2000 - 16:25:55 PST
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