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need help on finding source for obeechi wood planks

[Abbott Racing]

I use Source Wood Products located in Cornwall Ontario Canada. Great supply of rough lumber planks. Great prices etc....

1-800-966-3988

[epugh66]

Obeechi has its attractions, but dont rule out spruce. We get ours at a local lumber yard, a real one not the ones that also sale everything, anyway, Gary gets to pick throught the piles to get the best boards.

[Bill Huson]

I use to get Obeechi planks from Domestic & Imported hardwoods - least I think that was the name. Location, south of Fredericksburg Virginia. Huge lumber importer. They sold it in the rough, not planed, but lawsey was it cheap! I'd plane it down with a Ryobi 10" planer and rip it up with more planing to get strips at the precise size I wanted.

Switched to Obeechi after my Sitka spruce supply dried up. The lumberyard in Millersville Maryland (south of Baltimore) quit handling Sitka - buggers. Sitka is the best. Light, strong, and easy to work and glue. Obeechi is okay, but kind of cheesy compared to Sitka.

[bill boyes]

I prefer spruce. Obeechi is very light. a warning about Obeechi.
some people can be allergic to it. so be careful when sanding.
ask Darrell Sorenen.

[B1PRORACER]

Is this Manny? There is a place in Somerville, MA (within sight of Boston to the south) that has everything- including Sitka Spruce and okume plywood. They even have aircraft plywood as thin as 1/16".... They are Boulter Plywood in Somerville. That is where I get all my wood. Clark Maloof and Bill Giles used to get sitka spruce from M.L. Condon in White Plains, NY with plywood coming from Harbor Sales.........but that was many years ago!
Peter Crowley

[G Stillwill]

This is where i get mine from but better call as i got the last they had about a month.

http://www.colonialhardwoods.com/index.htm

[Bill Huson]

You must be close to me, Mr G Stillwell. I'm in Annandale VA and didn't even know about Colonial Hardwoods when I was building boats galore, or maybe I did and choked over their prices. I was paying $1.42/bd ft for Obeche, but that was a many moons ago.

[jsilvestri]

I know a lot of guys use spruce and obechie (sp) in their boats but I used butternut in the last boat I built. It worked pretty good and more importantly, I was able to buy it locally. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these woods. I'm thinking of building another boat and would like to use the best wood I can get for it. I've also thought of using poplar, any ideas or thoughts on it? I believe the poplar is a little heavier. Any suggestions would help.

[Bill Huson]

Without referring to my manuals . . .

Obechi - lightwieght, easy to cut, plane, and sand, takes epoxy glues well, but kind of cheesy and doesn't like to be secured with just boat nails or screws. Rots at the speed of light if left untreated (WEST resin is best)

Sitka spruce. The lightest per cubic foot of the pines and very strong. Preferred frsme wood for homebuilt aircraft and hydros.

Don't know diddly about butternut. Methinks poplar might work but check for swelling when wet. Juniper is used in wood sailboat dingy (single mast wet boats) construction. Juniper is very easy to work, rather tough, and has an aversion to rotting.

Douglas fir - sucks. Very, very strong, but heavy and comes out a loser on strength/wieght ratio aganist Sitka. Hard as hell to bend around a curve without steaming.

Any compendium of wood boat construction should have a fairly complete overview of woods, but those are aimed at large boats and craftsman who get a giggle out of playing with oddball woods. Useful info to know, but not all that applicable to our goals, which is light wight and strong enough to hang in there for a few years. Other features we like, able to zip thru a 10" Ryobi planer without choking up :-)

[Fatty]

Scott Reed might have what yout looking for and he isnt too far away.
nightmoves

[fasterboats]

Kellog hardwoods in Danbury Ct.

The owner is very friendly and likes boats (he has built some 30' motorboats for himself)
I dont have the # handy but it's the book.

He introduce me to spanish cedar
anybody else used it?