Conch Fritter uses resawn cedar strips. The strips are 3/16" thick and anywhere from 3/4"-2" in width. I cut them out of 2x6 and 2x8 rough cut western red cedar. There is no stain on them, but I chose the boards for the color, tints, grains. It took me about 3 weeks with my bandsaw and cut out about 1, 500 linear feet. My gallery has them laid out as I attempted to bookmatch the two sides. I have enough left over to do my front and rear designs plus my pirate chest tongue box. Oh, and the original boards were 12-14' long, cost was about $20 each and I think I used 5 or 6 total.
These were the boards laid out on the wall sections after the resaw. You'll notice the numbers, that was for my attempted bookmatch between the sides. It did not quite work out, as I broke a couple of strips, but they are very close.
Oh, and they are glued to the plywood backboard with TBII, then coated with the "mix" and final coating of 3 layers of spar poly. If you go through the gallery you'll see how they were attached, cut and finished.
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