any help much appreciated ...
(very old) plans for a collapsible canoe call for a plank of white ash to be effectively whittled into doweling rods 12 feet long and 1 inch in diamater. I wondered whether the normal dowelling rods (eg sold for wardrobe poles) would work as well - and whether it is possible to buy dowelling that long? Is white ash a much stronger/more flexible kind of wood?
thanks for any thoughts!
(very old) plans for a collapsible canoe call for a plank of white ash to be effectively whittled into doweling rods 12 feet long and 1 inch in diamater. I wondered whether the normal dowelling rods (eg sold for wardrobe poles) would work as well - and whether it is possible to buy dowelling that long? Is white ash a much stronger/more flexible kind of wood?
thanks for any thoughts!