I've seen this come up a few times on Facebook.
Contrary to what your neighbour tells you...or your buddy who builds offshore race boats...but slicing up 2x4s and using that as a core material because it's cheaper than balsa (and by extension, even more cheaper than composites) is NOT a good idea.
And don't even ask me what this guy was using as "stringers".
It literally looks like the edge side of a cardboard pallet.
Someone mentioned that it's possibly Nidacore (a composite core material), but last I checked, Nidacore was white, so exposure to resin would result in a pretty uniform colour, would it not? Nevermind the spacing between cells in the Nidacore is a lot closer together.
So basically it boils down to: Don't cheap out. You put yourself, and possibly others, in danger by doing this. Is saving a few hundred bucks really worth it?
I've seen this come up a few times on Facebook.
Contrary to what your neighbour tells you...or your buddy who builds offshore race boats...but slicing up 2x4s and using that as a core material because it's cheaper than balsa (and by extension, even more cheaper than composites) is NOT a good idea.
[img]http://www.adadk.ca/HSF/sliced2x4.png[/img]
[img]http://www.adadk.ca/HSF/sliced2x4zoomed.png[/img]
And don't even ask me what this guy was using as "stringers".
It literally looks like the edge side of a cardboard pallet.
[img]http://www.adadk.ca/HSF/cardboardpallet.jpg[/img]
Someone mentioned that it's possibly Nidacore (a composite core material), but last I checked, Nidacore was white, so exposure to resin would result in a pretty uniform colour, would it not? Nevermind the spacing between cells in the Nidacore is a lot closer together.
[img]http://www.adadk.ca/HSF/nidacore.jpg[/img]
So basically it boils down to: Don't cheap out. You put yourself, and possibly others, in danger by doing this. Is saving a few hundred bucks really worth it?
