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wood blanks for carving
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August 30, 2024
What is the lowest density wood?
Balsa weighs nine pounds a cubic foot at twelve percent moisture, and the USDA prints about ten pounds for the same tree because it weighs the wood bone dry. Nine species are laid out with both units, and then the reason I choose limewood has nothing to do with weight.
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August 28, 2024
What does wood shrinkage mean?
Every other number on a wood chart decides what happens while you carve. This one decides what happens for the next hundred years, and I have a gouge whose ring went loose on its own to prove it.
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August 28, 2024
What does the crushing strength of wood mean?
I lost petal rims to this for years and blamed the wood. Here are the real crushing numbers, and the bench test that finally stopped it.
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