Timber substitutes and staining timber

[44'cruisingcat]

The caravan offcuts are cheap alright. They're free! Getting rid of them is actually an expense for those guys. If some boat builder wants to take a ute load, they're welcome.

Wish I'd known about them when doing my furniture. It's a glossy plastic like laminex front and back, with something like Styrofoam coring. Quite light and nice looking. Can be glued with vinylester, and kerfs nicely.

You wouldn't build a boat from it, but for furniture it's great.

There's one caravan place on the sunshine coast that has shipping containers crammed with door and window cut outs in some amazing colours and finishes. Just wish I could think of a use for them! Unfortunately they don't seem to have larger bits.

[coopec43]

Originally Posted by 44'cruisingcat

The caravan offcuts are cheap alright. They're free! Getting rid of them is actually an expense for those guys. If some boat builder wants to take a ute load, they're welcome.

Wish I'd known about them when doing my furniture. It's a glossy plastic like laminex front and back, with something like Styrofoam coring. Quite light and nice looking. Can be glued with vinylester, and kerfs nicely.

You wouldn't build a boat from it, but for furniture it's great.

There's one caravan place on the sunshine coast that has shipping containers crammed with door and window cut outs in some amazing colours and finishes. Just wish I could think of a use for them! Unfortunately they don't seem to have larger bits.

Maybe using PVC stripe to join smaller pieces would be a possibility?

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/283001390049

https://www.google.com/search?q=pvc+...FrRkgm-GkQWNtM

[44'cruisingcat]

Originally Posted by coopec43

Maybe using PVC stripe to join smaller pieces would be a possibility?

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/283001390049

https://www.google.com/search?q=pvc+...FrRkgm-GkQWNtM

Yeah it'd be possible but a bit of a hassle. You'd have to take through to find enough of the same colour to be useful.

Most of the offcuts we were getting were about 2.5m by 600mm, so pretty ideal for building seating. Only in white though. For the galley we did join, which is why the horizontal timber strip.