Find Your Way 2022-07-21

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Find Your Way 2022-07-21

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http://wapsisquare.com/comic/find-your-way-2/

I disagree, I prefer a close-grained tropical hardwood from the Phillipines that has almost no visible grain and is moderately light but carves and sands almost as well as MDF over any of the temperate hardwoods. I haven't made a wooden model in 4 decades so I forgot the name of the wood, but not how it worked or took paints.
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Opus the Poet wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 2:32 am http://wapsisquare.com/comic/find-your-way-2/

I disagree, I prefer a close-grained tropical hardwood from the Phillipines that has almost no visible grain and is moderately light but carves and sands almost as well as MDF over any of the temperate hardwoods. I haven't made a wooden model in 4 decades so I forgot the name of the wood, but not how it worked or took paints.
Mahogany?
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Nope, this wood is almost white and mahogany is a medium brown to almost black. I haven't seen it for sale in decades and I've totally forgotten the name. But it is so easy to work with, I just can't oversell how easy it is to work with.
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Opus the Poet wrote: Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:11 pm http://wapsisquare.com/comic/find-your-way-2/

I disagree, I prefer a close-grained tropical hardwood from the Phillipines that has almost no visible grain and is moderately light but carves and sands almost as well as MDF over any of the temperate hardwoods. I haven't made a wooden model in 4 decades so I forgot the name of the wood, but not how it worked or took paints.

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Nope, this wood is almost white and mahogany is a medium brown to almost black. I haven't seen it for sale in decades and I've totally forgotten the name. But it is so easy to work with, I just can't oversell how easy it is to work with.
Balsa matches most of your description... but I wouldn't describe it as "hard"...
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Opus the Poet wrote: Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:11 pm Nope, this wood is almost white and mahogany is a medium brown to almost black. I haven't seen it for sale in decades and I've totally forgotten the name. But it is so easy to work with, I just can't oversell how easy it is to work with.
I've seen a good deal of furniture made from what was called rubber-tree wood which generally matches your description.

There are/were a lot of different tropical woods in the trade, but many of them have probably been over-harvested into commercial (and perhaps actual) extinction.
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Opus the Poet wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 2:32 am http://wapsisquare.com/comic/find-your-way-2/

I disagree, I prefer a close-grained tropical hardwood from the Phillipines that has almost no visible grain and is moderately light but carves and sands almost as well as MDF over any of the temperate hardwoods. I haven't made a wooden model in 4 decades so I forgot the name of the wood, but not how it worked or took paints.
Basswood/Talia/Linden?

Native mahogany is sometimes used for firewood in North Carolina and nearby mountainous areas...
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AFAIK this wood only grows in the Phillipines, the stuff I bought back in the early 70s was almost white it was so pale, and it was heavier than balsa but worked about the same but not as flexible as balsa.
EDIT: Google is your friend, the wood is called Gmelina Arborea and is readily available if you know what it is.
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Opus the Poet wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:26 am . . . EDIT: Google is your friend, the wood is called Gmelina Arborea* and is readily available if you know what it is.
I wonder if that's the "beechwood" widely used for rifle stocks in SE Asia?

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