i been to all the local home depot and lowes stores but i can’t find any wood thin enough. seems the only wood they have under 1/2" is plywood and those luan door skins. i’m looking for something around 3/16th. anybody else have the same problem? do you get your material from a lumber yard or something? and i was looking for pvc too, the only stuff they had was wavy roofing pvc material.
-rick
Know anyone with a table saw. Maybe they can rip you a nice piece of redwood or cedar. Mike
Go to the finished wood section, not raw lumber.
What’s wrong with 1/8" Luan?
Just use a piece of rice paper and epoxy, forget wood.
maybe i can get the guys at home depot to cut it.
Good luck getting them to cut anything that thin. I’ve tried with no luck.
A good option is to go to a mill/woodworking factory. They will definitley be able to do just about anything for you. Cost could be an issue. But then again what you are asking not time consuming so Labor would be a minimum.
Dre
Rick,
You won’t score at the depot or the low place for such lumber. They won’t rip the widths you’ll need to thin stock (don’t have the equipment), and most importantly their construction lumber is usually not near sufficiently kiln dried. Go to any lumber dealer that specializes in hardwoods for the furniture trade (yards that sell the usual array of oak, walnut, mahogany, etc.) Most of these larger yards also sell “clear all hart” redwood, cedar, basswood, etc.) Many of these yards also do milling services, or can at least recommend a cabinet shop or woodworker who can yield your stringers on a bandsaw / jointer.
Had another thought.
Clark foam might sell you wood only!
Drew
i had that thought, too…but the Clark warehouse in Melbourne doesn’t stock stringers…all custom glue-ups are done out in California and then shipped…but they might be willing to just send some stringers.
Oops, sorry I thought that was obvious or I would have spoke up already! Yeah, you can get stringers from Clark. I’ve done it, it was no big deal, and they where pretty cheap… something like 7 bucks for a 10’ length of 1/16 inch bass.-Carl
Go back to Home Depot and go to the moulding section where they sell milled trim pieces such as crown moulding, baseboard, etc. they sell a light weight pine 1/4" x 1 1/2". Here it sold by the foot up to 16 foot lenghts. On a flat table- Edge glue with wood workers glue enough pieces to make any size stringer you would want.
That will certainly work structurally, but consider that it will result in “seams” or gluelines where one board is glued to the other (wood color / grain variations). These will show on top and bottom surfaces of the stringers as a result of cutting through the laminations of the wood to achieve the curved rocker profile. I see it on regular order foam blanks with stringers, and it’s more apparent on some than others depending on the woods that were used to glue together.
Not a big deal to many for most boards, but can be unsightly to those wanting a “pristine” look on a high-end board. It’s always that juggle between creating / manufacturing, economics / efficiency, and functionality / perfection. Always lots of ways to do things. I’ve had experiences where I did the thing right only to wish later I had instead, done the right thing.
RichardMc
I didn’t think Mottola is going for the pristine high end look. If you saw his other post he was asking how to glue up blue foam sheets. The wood strips in question don’t have much grain showing so the glue lines are almost invisible.
The surfboard building supply section at my Home Depot does not have any stringer material there… so walk on down to the Garden section and over by where the wood latice is they have a roughcut 8’ x 3-1/2" x 3/16" cedar bender board. for a low rocker board that stuff might work if not be nice and buy a plant your yard could use it. Just my .02