Posted by Graham Knight on November 05, 2003 at 11:32:46:
In Reply to: Re: Nails for planking? posted by Kirk Bellamy on November 05, 2003 at 05:05:04:
I take your point about placing faith in the quality of the ply, but if you don't have faith in it why use it? If I had any doubts whatsoever about the quality of the ply I certainly wouldn't be building a boat out of it, a garden shed maybe, but not something that my life may depend on one day!
The decision to use fasteners or not is a personal one, but I arrived at my decision after consulting every professional wooden boat builder in my area who uses epoxy. Most of them use the same brand and grade of marine ply that I used, from the same supplier. Without their recommendation my decision may have been different, but I figure if that's how the professionals do it then who am I to argue?
I'd really like to know Glen-L's position on this, should we be using nails, screws, or just epoxy?