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23rd January 2012, 10:28 AM #1Novice
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can any one identify this wood
i think this is western red cedar
i have five large windows im not sure if i should sell them or use them to make a strip canoe
i want to know what a board foot is?
i have a book by Gil Gilpatrick on strip canoes and it says that i need 75 board feet of lumber to make it ? what the
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23rd January 2012, 11:07 AM #2
It is WRC.
A board foot is a piece of wood measures 12 in × 12 in × 1 in.Visit my website at www.myFineWoodWork.com
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23rd January 2012, 11:16 AM #3
Looks like Western Red to me.
A Broad foot or Super Foot is 12"x12"x1"
or .0256 of a Cu Meter
E.g. Piece of timber 4' long x 6" wide x 1/2 thick = 1 Super-foot
2' x 6" x 1" = 1 Super foot
I buy timber by the Cu M buy sell it in Broad Feet.
Cheers
Steve
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23rd January 2012, 12:04 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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26th January 2012, 11:01 AM #5
Yep. The term "board foot" is an Americanism. Used in USA and Canada. In Australian and New Zealand usage the correct term is "superfoot".
Standard unit of volume measurement for timber prior to decimalisation. Remained in common usage here for many years after the introduction of decimal measurement, until use of the "cubic metre" unit of measurement became more accepted.
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26th January 2012, 12:00 PM #6
75 superfoot, big canoe is it?
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26th January 2012, 12:17 PM #7
It'd be a bloody HEAVY canoe, anyways!
But nah. If you look at this construction log for a project based on Gil Gilpatrick's book, you'll see that much of the timber volume used goes into the 'strongback' construction platform, rather than into the canoe itself.
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26th January 2012, 04:05 PM #8
The WRC.
Hi Tokoroanz,
Please be very careful of the dust off this wood
It is very bad. It put a friend of mine in Hospital for over 3 weeks. Nearly lost him.Regards,
issatree.
Have Lathe, Wood Travel.
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26th January 2012, 10:27 PM #9Novice
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thatnks for the advise issatree
the canoe is going to be about 18 foot long
i am probably going to make it out of pauloiwnia
wrc would be nice but i dont think i have enough in the windows i have and it would be a shame to bust them up ( also they are worth more to me as windows i think )
and to buy rough cut wrc it is just so expensive and every one who has any knows its value
if only it grew around here
and i cant find any other options that are light enough to make a canoe from
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26th January 2012, 11:17 PM #10Novice
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i lkooked at the link to sam buchanans canoe log
it was fantastic thank you
i noted thta he used 65 board feet for his canoe
i imagine that a lot of this ended up on the flkoor as shavings after you make the strips
went back to Gils book ( which is a brilliant book) and he said 70 -75
what do you think of timber such as maple? to make a canoe?
it is easy to get and light b ut soft and likes to move?
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