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    What knife do you carry on or with you?

    Not to hijack this thread but has anyone used or tried the Glock model 79 or 81?
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    substitute for ash?

    I am having the same problem locating ash in my area. How would Poplar or Aspen work?
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    Canoe building question

    Well I definitely got a lot of good feed back and really good information. I'm with Ron, Kevlar is out, vacuum bags are out. I want to build a nice light weight solo canoe as inexpensively as possible. Most of the water I run in are rivers with some bumping and rubbing, nothing too severe...
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    Canoe building question

    I have been checking out these posts and some others "from web sites that we wont mention here" and so far I have come up with two major concerns. First is the sheer strength, second is the compression strength. Ron's use of dowels seems to help with the compression, it would seem to me that it...
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    Canoe building question

    I was wondering if anyone has tried to build a wooden strip canoe using a foam core instead of the wood strips. The foam I am considering is the type used in construction. Would it retain enough strength? Would the epoxy properly adhere to the foam? And any other questions I should be asking...