Niklas Edlund
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A few years back I made some laminated (21 sized) wood tub sides in an effort to make them lighter... Like 0.8 mm aero birch ply for outside and 1 mm aero birch inside and max cut-out's (not only drilled out holes) 3 or 4 mm balsa or obechi as core, laminated together with as thin a layer as possible with different versions of epoxy... Everything ended up heavier then the stock marine spec gaboon/okume 6 mm (1/4) plywood. I might remember wrongly though but I think the 6 mm gaboon one is even lighter then 1/8 (3 mm) aero birch plywood... But a good laminate can defenetly be more ridgid then stock gaboon marine plyuwood though. If aiming for a stronger (and lighter) I would go directly to all carbon with additional divinycell (or airex) as core material where needed...