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Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 2:32 am
by Opus the Poet
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.
Re: Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2022 10:52 pm
by Sgt. Howard
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?
Re: Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:11 pm
by Opus the Poet
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.
Re: Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:51 pm
by Warrl
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"...
Re: Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:36 am
by Dave
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.
Re: Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:07 pm
by AnotherFairportfan
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...
Re: Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:26 am
by Opus the Poet
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.
Re: Find Your Way 2022-07-21
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:31 am
by FreeFlier
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?
In high school we got hold of some hemlock that was so hard it
polished . . . we weren't sure of the exact ring-count, but it was approaching 100 rings per inch . . .
--FreeFlier
*edited to add link