Dio vs Yak round 1

Cut a white oak this week, kept an 8’ish section whole for cutting coaming and ribs. My dad and I split it out today to get it to working thicknesses and thats a story in itself. Anywhoos, wood defeats saw, kept popping the breaker.

Being the stubborn cuss I am, I came back home with the split logs, dropped them in the driveway and glared at them for about an hour. Back out comes the Stihl, and while it hates ripping, it will do it. I ripped those logs down to roughly 2×4 sections so that the table saw can handle them. This aint over yet, wood!

One observation while we attempted to rip them down with the table saw. This wood BENDS so damned easy! That was the major reason behind my being a stubborn cuss; I saw how well a 3/8″ cutting could be nearly bent over on itself, and I WANT that for making this yak! That 3/8″ section was able to bend into a 2″ radius with no signs of splintering, and it wasnt steamed; just greenish. The coaming is the most complicated set of bends, with two layers, but there are 22 ribs that need bent and three of those are quite tight. This oak will fill that bill if I can get enough quality pieces out of it. And I’ll be damned if I am not going to try.