Everything you ever wanted to know about Wood ...

[GPW]

Since many of us have to use wood in our Foamie constructions ... might as well Know what you’re working with .... This one’s for all the Engineers out there....

http://www.conradlumberco.com/pdfs/ch4- ... f-Wood.pdf

[ghcoe]

Looks like a lot of reading and I still do not know if I would know much more than I do now......

[GPW]

It's a good basis for comparison between different woods ...relative strengths and weights .... There's a LOT to it...

Useful tool for the "technically" minded ! A bit daunting for the rest of us ...

[wagondude]

Nice find. There is a wealth of information there for many, enough to be dangerous for some, and for the rest, just information overload. Very cool.

[Mary C]

and I have worked with wood for many years and............ you had to put this on for discussion, after I have had just one too many I am not sure I would understand it any more after I read it, I am from the old school that wood has a special feel and you can see the texture I was taught to have an intimate woodworkers relationship of touching , and feeling the grain and texture. I thought my mentor was crazy when I heard him talking like that, but once I had made a few pieces of wood work I began to see for my self what he was trying to teach me. oh why do I sound so .....so ....... I am going to have another and think about this.........

Mary C.

[GPW]

Funny , if we did the same chart for Foam it would be a paragraph or two ...

[Wolffarmer]

Here is some more info on wood

Wood

A bit over a week ago I found a good place to get hard woods in Boise. Only 180 miles away. I picked up some Honduras mahogany and a bit of zebra wood. $200 and I could carry it all at once.



And the hinges for a project I am thinking about set me back $75 and I will probably need more mahogany.

oh well

[GPW]

Fine woods have gotten a bit Pricy ... You don’t even want to know what we have to pay for a small block of bubble Quilted Maple ... ( for guitar tops )

[VijayGupta]

Even better, the FPL "Wood as an Engineering Material" More data than you'll ever want to know about wood.

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publi ... eader_id=p

[GPW]

VJ, Thanks !!! The more we know , the better we can use it !!!