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I'm new to the building part of this hobby. We restored a 1955 Carver outboard a few years ago and have taken it up to the wood boat show in Eagle River the last couple of years. Now it's time for an inboard, so I finally started on the Mist Miss project that I bought the plans for five years ago. After locating the correct white oak locally, I've got 4 of 8 frames done now. I bought a jet boat with a blown motor for the jet drive and marine parts and trailer for less than a used jet drive in Wausau last month. Looking forward to making the frames look more like a boat in the coming months. Anyone else building an inboard in central Wisconsin?

Hi , welcome!

Welcome! If you dont mind me asking, how much is white oak selling for up there?

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shadetree,

If you are ever in the Tulsa area the best deal I've found for white oak locally is at White & Son. It's a small place but the guy has been great to work with.

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I found the white oak (and just about everything you could imagine) at Granite Valley Hardwoods, they're a distributo about 25 minute from my house. At $2.74 bd-ft I got 120 ft for about $300, should be all I need for the framing including the motor stringers (two lengths laminated together) They're two sides sanded to 15/16" and have worked out great so far. They came in at 13'-14' and 6"-8" wide.