Re: wood selection

From: Mark <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:08:55 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "barrysholder" <barry@...>
wrote:
>
> When you are going thru your balsa trying to extract the good parts
of
> a sheet does it make any difference if the good part of the sheet
does
> diagonal to the shape of the way the sheet was cut? Does that make
> sense?


If you retrim the edge of sheet to *get* parallel with the grain, it
won't matter, 'cause you fixed it. If you don't retrim, it probably
will matter, strength-wise, at least with any spar-type application.
Good question.
 
Received on Sun Jan 07 2007 - 14:09:19 CET