Hi Raggie. For your 2mm ply, give Jotika in Hadzor, Droitwich a try. I am certain I have seen sheets up to 8ft x 4ft in their cutting room.

Www.jotika-ltd.com

Best of luck, Dave W

Hi John
Thanks for the link. I will e-mail them to see if they will let me know if one of there customers can supply me with one sheet cut to the sizes I require. Will let you know how I get on.

Cheers

Raggie

Hi Doug,
All true.
The information that I posted was based purely on flat panels.
More information on how it was to be used would have been helpful.
Making superstructure relatively straight forward but as you said used on a curved hull it would present a few problems.
I think next time I should ask for more information in stead of assuming and jumping in with my size 9s

Martin.

Hi there,
Somewhere - in the UK - you can purchase 8 ft x 4ft sheets of 2 mm birch plywood. I know because I bought some for a model shop in Whitburn, Tyne and Wear a while ago - they cut if from an 8ft x 4ft for me - but the problem in now the shop in Whitburn has now closed down. I have been doing a bit of web search and I have come across this link but it seems it will only sell to the industry. If you contact them they may be able to let you know who they supply too.
https://www.specialisedpanels.co.uk/birch-plywood.html
Or they may even sell it to you - good luck.


When I was joining plywoods on real boats we used to feather them (taper them) but you wont be able to do that with 2mm thick ply. So, as suggested above, may be the best option.


John

So far so good Martin👍
BUT😉 if the joint is on a curved section of the hull it will be very difficult / virtually impossible to prevent an obvious kink at the joint.☹️
Therefore Raggie try to arrange the joint on the flattest / straightest part of the hull.
Then use the overlapping piece on the inside rather than at a bulkhead.
That gives you more joint area thus, more 'wiggle' room to get the hull line right and a stronger joint.
It's also important that, especially on a curved hull section, the overlap piece is of the same material and the grain runs the same way as the hull skins. Otherwise the joint will be stiff and again you have a kink in the hull line. Don't ask how I know that 😭
Cheers, Doug 😎

Hi,
A lot depends on how you are going to use it.
If you want a joint to be almost invisible then you have to stagger the layers of the plywood (very difficult to do on such thin material)
If you have room on the inside then it is just a case of butting them together and glueing on a overlapping piece across the joint.
Or make the joint land on a bulkhead.

Martin.