I had ordered some veneer from the UK.

Boat building veneers. The only hard part is. Parallel strips of wood glued edge to edge over a temporary building jig and covered in glassepoxy or wood veneer. Okoume marine plywood teak lumber.

We are happy to provide any advice to trade and domestic customers with our onsite processing ensuring the highest quality standards. Beneteau Sheila COwner Dirk Apple Sheila Collins. If you plan on building a new boat or repairing an existing boat we are your source for boat building woods and marine grade plywood.

Cold moulding is a composite method of wooden boat building that uses two or more layers of thin wood called veneers oriented in different directions resulting in a strong monocoque structure similar to a fibreglass hull but substantially lighter. A few builders have built stitch-and-glue boats from exterior-grade wood that often has very thin face veneers and may contain voids. The right Primer improves adhesion to the boat deck dramatically.

The veneers do need to be a minimum of about 4mm gives you enough meat to get stuck into it. Creating doesnt require forever if you have a finetuned table or bandsaw and a planer with sharp blades. Architectural panels cabinetry flooring furniture and interior woodwork as well as shipbuilding.

I did have need for several additional sheets of ply to finish the interiorand we found some Russian made stuff with the veneer already applied Russian Ash a better figured wood than American Ash it. Our veneers are typically used in the production of high quality plywood for the construction and boat-building industries. Teak was one of the most exploited wood species for nearly thirty years beginning in the 60s.

Unless the boat being built is specifically designed to be built from exterior grade plywood this is a foolish and potentially dangerous practice. We used bothe Okoume and Sapele in building my last boat. Plywood veneers build up bulk faster than individual layers of veneers.