Sourcing timber and the first bit of gluing

I spent many hours this week going to lumber yard trying to find one thing:  Clear vertical grain western red cedar boards.  Since its native to the pacific northwest, it's tough to find out here.  Plenty of lumber yards carry it, and we even found some at a Lowe's, but it isn't clear.  I ended up ordering some through a lumber yard that has a Cleveland distributor with 6" boards.  It's not vertical grain, but they claim that it's clear.  I can work around a lot of the vertical grain issues by planning my cuts.  There are enough narrow lengths (<1") that I should be able to cut them from the center of the board.

Notice that ripping the board along the black lines and then rotating it 90 degrees results in vertical grain.

Since I can't do any more with the bulkheads until this comes in later this week I decided to have a go at gluing the plywood scarfs. 

Epoxy station

"clamped" with a 160 pounds of weights.  The plastic is so squeeze-out doesn't glue the 2x4s to the plywood.

I bought a slow hardener to give myself plenty of time to work in the warm weather.  The leftover was setting after a few hours, but I'm going to give this at least 24 before I check on it.  Fingers are crossed.  It it all goes well I get the other two sheets glued together and make some room in the basement to start laying out panels.