Folks, our friend and bamboo supplier at NW Bamboo in Portland, Oregon, has put together a terrific deal on bamboo ply in kit form for skin-on-frame sea kayaks. This kit is milled to the Seawolf Kayak spec, and provides enough material for ribs and a coaming for a single 17′ boat, including enough to break a lot of ribs and to give you two tries at each bending on the coaming. Email chris@nwbamboo.com or call 503.695.3283.
How much is the kit?
Not sure what it is at the moment, best to contact Chris, see above.
How much is it?
Hi Kiliii,
I am making me a 16 foot skin on frame canoe. After I have seen that Brian
Schulz from Cape Falcon uses Bamboo laminates I decided to make the ribs out of it too. I took 6mm by 50mm dimension.
I am ready with the frame, oiling it.
It looks great.
Friendly yours,
JJT
I am in the planning stages of building a SOF Kayak. Are bamboo ply and bamboo laminates the same material? And how are they to work with; won’t ripping, cutting, sanding produce lots of splinters?