Soliciting opinions for a "skin"

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How about a stiff/tight weaved cloth that is treated, I mean in WW11, the British Spitfire had cloth wings that were coated with a stiffner.
I made many a mini plane the same thing, coat with Dope, dries and tighten then, paint. But those were air plane wings.
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Go to local lumber yard and get two door skins. They will work perfectly. Last time I bought them they were cheap. They will Add rigidity and protection to the whole thing. Door skins are 1/8 or less thick
Fairly easy to work with and seem made to perfectly glue to wood frames. I guess it all comes from their name "door skins"
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Ed in Tampa wrote:Go to local lumber yard and get two door skins. They will work perfectly. Last time I bought them they were cheap. They will Add rigidity and protection to the whole thing. Door skins are 1/8 or less thick
Fairly easy to work with and seem made to perfectly glue to wood frames. I guess it all comes from their name "door skins"
I like this idea but it seems that this is no long something places here carry or they know it by another name??? Lowe's use to have some but I guess they no longer do? I find it hard to believe as I've seen this stuff in the past but, what is going on?

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Re: Soliciting opinions for a "skin"

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reible wrote:
Ed in Tampa wrote:Go to local lumber yard and get two door skins. They will work perfectly. Last time I bought them they were cheap. They will Add rigidity and protection to the whole thing. Door skins are 1/8 or less thick
Fairly easy to work with and seem made to perfectly glue to wood frames. I guess it all comes from their name "door skins"
I like this idea but it seems that this is no long something places here carry or they know it by another name??? Lowe's use to have some but I guess they no longer do? I find it hard to believe as I've seen this stuff in the past but, what is going on?

Ed
I think you need a builders supply or lumber store. I don't think the big boxes carry them
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