The Devon Hardwoods lorry arrived at the boat shed and offloaded a pile of Iroko. I spent some time measuring and recording all the pieces so that I can match them to my cutting list.
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There are two ways of buying timber. You can have the timber yard pick from their stock of rough sawn planks and cut and plane to the width and thickness you need. Or you can buy sawn timber and you get the nearest size that can be planed down to what you need.
Sensible people buy their stock of wood in finished pieces. It saves a lot of sweat and tears. If you look closely you will see that my timber is rough sawn. I guess it felt like cheating to have someone else doing the work, but I may regret this.
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My stock of wood has grown and I now have sufficient to complete the hull up to the point of turning it over.