Balsa trees which sways severly in the wind when growing will have 'wind
check' marks in them and make the wood act this way. If you hold that
sheet up to a bright light, you will probably see faint darker lines
going across the wood grain or at an angle, and the wood will crack at
these areas very easily. I give wood like this to my son to play with.
Don
> off a piece and it immediately splintered into 1-2 inch fragments. With
> a little magnification, you can see a very weird grain pattern that runs
> at a slight angle to the sheet. Where this crosses the edge of the
> sheet it breaks. The wood is also an odd color- it's almost gray, as if
> it had weathered. My question is, what can I do with it?
> Nicholas Huang, Boise, ID
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