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  1. It does! It might be a little less strong because my wood is very dry, but there's definitely no mistaking it for anything else. Smells like root beer or Dr Pepper to me.
  2. In the books it says that for initial assembly, canoes should skip the gunwales and use the next stringer down to set the frames and etc. On the Crawfish, the next stringers down that are full length are the ones at the chine. Should I just go ahead and clamp a cross-brace to every frame and use the gunwales for this step?
  3. Great! Now I have enough for two boats! I'll start posting pics soon, assuming this weather doesn't blow me away.
  4. I have another question, now that I'm on to really processing stringers: can I get away with 15/16ths instead of 1 inch for the stringers? I am looking at how much waste there is in cutting down the 15/16ths dimension to 5/8ths and it really is a bunch. This stock is all 1/16th under an inch, and I don't know enough to know if that's a critical amount.
  5. Yesterday I made up what were going to be gunwhales out of some of the sassafras I already had, mostly to test out my scarf jig. I noticed a couple of tiny pinholes, which I was told are from a boring beetle and would not affect the strength, but tonight I decided to break them anyway as a test for my peace of mind. With titebond 3, cured 24 hours, I bent a 16 foot scarfed gunwhale until it broke, nowhere near the joint. I kept trying to get the joint to give up and I couldn't, also couldn't get a failure near/across the pinhole. I am satisfied, and will be buying the rest of my stringer material tomorrow
  6. http://www.hobbyhardwoodalabama.com/ In New Market. Only open on Saturdays, wood all kiln dried. His wood really is as good as it looks on the website. It's most all skip-planed to 15/16ths so you have a bit of waste in 1 inch stringers I guess, but the price can't be beat!
  7. Hello everybody! I'm starting my build of the crawfish tandem here in North Alabama. My question is about using kiln-dried sassafras for stringer material. I know it is a very rot-resistant material that has traditionally been used for boat building, so I guess my question is whether or not anyone knows of a reason NOT to use it? I know it's heavier, but I don't think it's too much of a concern since these designs are so light anyway. I didn't find anything here on the forum, and the fact that there is a canoe design named Sassafras makes internet searching somewhat more complicated. The reason I would like to use it is that there is a place here I can get extremely clear, straight grained sassafras with very few knots for 3.50/bdft! I will still have to scarf it for length, but it would save me a whole bunch of scarfing out knots. Thanks! -Dave
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