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As a boat builder of composite boats, I got to the point where I would not touch American made plywood, inside or out
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of the boat. I even had a dealer try to convince me that some 1/2 ply was real marine- it was 4 ply!!! Guess what the warpage on THAT would be?
Over all, it isn't THAT much more to buy BS1088 Okume, or Meranti, which has ZERO voids, and zero face fills. Particularly if it is being epoxied or glassed over. The American plywood I've seen in the last 10-12 years is crap!! Didn't used to be so, but now it seems so.
On a 22 foot cabin sailboat I built some years ago, I priced Fir Marine, vs Okume. Price difference, on a $22,000 over all (sails, engine, trailer, etc) cost boat? 700 dollars.
Messages In This Thread
- Marine grade Plywood?
- True. I worked in the plywood machinery business for years.
- Bend plywood???
- As a boat builder of composite boats, I got to the point where I would not touch American made plywood, inside or out
- No, most US plywood is junk, good for houses only.
- Home Depot? or Lowes?
- Either one, but HD is worse. I buy at a REAL lumber yard, and last I bought, was actually cheaper
- Music to my ears. My main supplier started his business the year I was born, and he still works there every day.
- Sad that the big box stores have replaced real hardware stores...
- Have to say this though. I was in Lowe's a few weeks ago, and found plywood
- Small world.
- I'm surprised . . . but pleased to hear that
- In Rockland Maine-the Pine Tree State, Home Depot sells wood pellets imported from Georgia. ???
- In Rockland Maine-the Pine Tree State, Home Depot sells wood pellets imported from Georgia. ???
- Local hardware stores are it!
- Do you realize what you just wrote?
- Home Depot? or Lowes?
