Types of wood for different projects, and where to source

Ya that’s some tough stuff.

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That stuff is bomber. In art school, we had big, cone-shaped mallets made of the stuff–they were for whacking steel chisels into hardwoods. Most of them had a couple of decades of student use/abuse in them, and didn’t have a single chip out.

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Wow, that’s insane. I can see why it’s not commonly used for furniture.

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why use something nearly indestructible when we have particle board!

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