The other issue is that sawn wood is preferable for motorsticks and booms.
Planed wood tends to have microscopic damage that lessens the strength of
the wood.
Regards,
Nick
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Jake Palmer 82.jake_at_gmail.com
[Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have the ability to cut reasonably nice sheets of wood right now. My
> cut quality isn't perfect, but it's good enough for me. I've got a whole
> stack of .006"-.013" sheets I cut recently, but that's not the challenge.
> The challenge is tracking down high quality blocks of 4# wood in quantities
> sufficient to supply other people. Let Gitlow was buying pallet loads of
> only the lightest balsa direct from Central America, and even then only a
> small portion of it was good enough for premium 4# C grain sheets.
>
> And just in case anyone is wondering, I'm not interested in selling wood.
> I don't have access to a steady supply of high quality wood, and it's too
> much work.
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:02 AM, upwind120_at_gmail.com
> [Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Whoever buys one could become a new source of .010 and .008 balsa for the
>> rest of us and make the cost back in no time.
>>
>> a.
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>
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