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Topic: The different woods used in PT construction |
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Jun 29, 2007 - 8:21am
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While watching my copy of "Giant Killers" the other night, I jotted down the various different wood types (and where they came from) used in the construction of the 80' Elcos the narrator mentioned.
Just for fun, here's the list:
Mahogany from Africa and Honduras, white oak from Jersey, Brazilian balsa, maple, fir, Burmese teak, West Coast cedar, Wisconsin birch, Alaska and Canadian spruce, ash, poplar, heavy greenheart from Guyana, and of course, the ubiquitous plywood.
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Will Day
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Posted on: Jun 29, 2007 - 10:26am
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...of course, all that wood was in a slightly different form by the time we exported it to the AOs (and had guns and torpedeos hung all over it)
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