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Bendable Plywood
Joe,
Shell Lumber in Miami used to sell bendble plywood. It has the ply-grain parallel rather than crossed and the 3/32 can be readily bent to radii as short as 2 inches. I doubt that it comes much thicker. I've used it for furniture on the boat.
Since the fuselage is going to be representation rather than replica, maybe he floats should be built-up like cold molded boat construction or Albatross fuselage for example. In any case, you could build the form from bendable plywood and use it for laminating the top and bottom panels. Of course I would think using West epoxy is a great idea and I think I'd experiment to see if used judiciously, weight would really be a problem. Don't forget that these floats re going to see some real pounding.
thank you for sharing this with us,
john ferguson
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