[kerber63]

I had previously put in 3/4" marine grade cherry plywood. It was nice, but didn't have much of a lifespan. I decided to go with solid hardwood, and started looking around. While I was at it, I decided to make the boards all equal widths to make it look a bit cleaner. I contacted a local hardwood dealer and they hooked me up with some ash boards they planed to the thickness I needed. I ripped them down to size, and used a table saw to add the dados. I ordered a complete set of skid strips and used a couple of my old ones. There are more boards in my equal-width setup than with the stock configuration.