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This makes it hard.

hairymick

Well-Known Member
Dec 8, 2005
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Queensland, Australia
G'day guys,

I just got off the phone to Australian Wood Panels, attempting to buy some more 4mm Gaboon marine ply. Seems they have been bought out by a Malaysian mob and they no longer sell gaboon. To say I am livid would be a gross understatement.

They are now selling their own product, something they refer to as Marine Plywood Hardwood A bond A finish both sides. It weighs somewhere between 7 and 8 kgs per sheet which seems bloody heavy to me.

There is another supplier who has a few sheets of gaboon left but his prices are way dearer than I was expecting to pay.

I freaking HATE this. Here was I singing AWP's praises loud and long and just out of the blue everything changes. The cost of ply to feed my obsession has just more than doubled (if I can even get it) and goodness only knows how I will get the bloody stuff here.

End of rant. I feel better now.