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Kyle, what you are asking is not as simple as to what you are implying. Yes Ford used several types of hard woods as referenced on the drawings. With regard to steaming, you will need to have a fixture to bend them to that allows for spring-back, and you will need a band to compress the wood. Additionally, we buy all of our wood straight from the mill and air dry it to about 18% just for steaming. Kiln dried wood will not bend correctly from our experiences.


With regard to laminating, you likely are better off to purchase a piece of 4/4 Ash and cut to shape and plane to thickness. Since you are only about 90 miles away from Benson Library, I would go purchase the prints. The issue with using the original ribs is they have likely lost some of the curvature, and you will have an incorrect bow shape.