What type of cedar to use. Red or white?
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:46 am
Is there a difference in red or white cedar? I need to replace the garboards and a couple of strips on my TVT.
Same basic family but they are like second or third cousins.
Thomspon at Peshtigo used western red cedar for the most part. However, they definately used native Wisconsin and Michigan U.P. northern white cedar. Pete Thompson told me that as a little kid he sometimes would accompany his granddad Pete to saw mills in Wisconsin and the U.P. Pete would make a deal with the mill operator to purchase all the white cedar for the season that the mill could produce at such and such a price per board foot.
I think the canvas covered canoes and boats used the white cedar.
It probably does not matter which one you utilize. Plenty of places to find northern white cedar in the the U.P. and northern Wisconsin.
Andreas