List of scavenged wood for the upcoming kayak build:
One pair of mortised kayak gunnels originally discarded because I just don’t trust the dark chocolate colored cedar in a rock garden boat.
Another pair of gunwales discarded because I didn’t wanna deal with the shake (zillions of tiny cracks).
One pair of stringers cut from an old story stick for the LPB and the other pair from board that was a little too thin to use on a customer kayak.
Keels cut out of my old East Greenland story stick.
3 secondary stringers cut from a random board on the porch and one cut from a long scrap of cedar that we used to lay out the garden when we first moved here.
Curved deck beams made from a chunk of cedar 4 x 4 I found on the side of the road a couple days ago, and some yellow cedar I found at a salvage yard a long time ago.
Straight deck beams for behind the cockpit cut from a beautiful piece of Sitka spruce that I used as a demo in my oar building class.
Other straight deck beams cut from some very old drawer sides that we pulled out of the dumpster.
Two stems cut from a piece of new wood and two others cut from a Catamaran board that I only used once.
One forward deck stringer is cut from yellow cedar from the same salvage yard, and the other one is the last piece of Sitka spruce from a log that I kayak salvaged and cut up with my buddy Mark about 15 years ago.
Spreader forms are brand new Russian birch ply because I don’t mess around when it comes to accuracy!
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