At 08:53 PM 11/7/2006, Dave Kruger wrote: >Craig Jungers wrote: >>Well I finally decided to take a serious look at building a Greenland >>paddle and stopped off at my local Home Depot. The only cedar they have >>is tongue-and-groove for paneling a wall. I suppose I could laminate >>it..... > >Any decent lumber yard should have CVG cedar, albeit at a premium. Home >Depot is not a decent lumber source. There are four different independent >lumber outfits out here in this small population Oregon county, and they >all have CVG western red cedar. I suspect that is a regional >preference, though, Craig, because we use the stuff to restore old houses. I found the same challenge trying to find WR Cedar for my strip built kayak. We have three big box stores that sell lumber (Home Depot, Lowes, 84) and none of them carried cedar planks. I went to a local lumber/hardware store and they had lot of it, in lengths up to 20'. I really didn't expect to find it here because we're so far east. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Nov 08 2006 - 04:14:38 PST
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