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Uh no -- if so I was wrong or it was a typo.
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Sorry -- was thinking of Tamarack... It turns yellow in the fall.
Will R. Jewel Boxes and Wood Art
Sitka spruce has a good weight to strength ratio and has been widely used in _other_ aircraft. In fact, one of the largest suppliers of parts and kits for homebuilt aircraft goes by the name of _Aircraft Spruce_.
Another wood commonly used in aircraft, a small boatload of which WAS used in the Hughes Hercules (aka "Spruce Goose") is birch. Aircraft birch is commonly used as plywood. Aircraft birch 3-ply plywood can be as thin as 1/64". That's pretty impressive when you consider that the veneer commonly used to cover fine furniture is typically 1/48", substantially thicker than that plywood.
Priced by the sheet, the cheapest plywood seems to be around
1/8" thick. For plywood thinner than that, the price per sheet goes up as the thickness goes down.
Luthiers use spruce, though they want straight-grained with closely spaced growth rings. The face of many stringed instruments, including most violins, are made from spruce. Most of the rest of a violin is made from hardwood, curly maple being a favorite, though some fir may be used in the interior.
Straight grained Sitka Spruce is the desired choice for traditional wood spars {masts & booms}. The flexibility allows it to bend rather than break.
Regards, Ron Magen Backyard Boatshop
Howard Hughes build the "Spruce Goose" (largest plane in the world at the time) out of it because he said that it was very light and stronger than most light woods...
I've never heard of it having problems like sap leaking like pine or splintering like oak... never had any to play with, though...
I would guess that there are several types of spruce??
mac
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I wonder if that's what the BORGs sell as "white wood" now... I've noticed that they don't sell pine shelving any more, just "white wood" whatever that is..
mac
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I've used quite a bit of douglas fir for utility stuff like garage drawer sides and bench/table edges... It's a little harder and stronger than pine or "white wood" and has a much tighter, straighter grain.. Sands and finishes pretty good, for the comparative price..
mac
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Douglas fir is not the same as the "fir" in SPF. (unfortunately)
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Like "white fish", an undifferentiated lot of species w/similar properties/appearance...
I have worked with both pine and spruce and they are very similar. I have use both on the same project, a Tack box, and it turned out really well. Same experience with a Saddle Rack.
I did find the spruce could split easily when nailing or screwing close to the ends, however a bit of care and the use of a pilot hole readily resolved that situation.
I'm sure you or another ww could find a good use for the spruce.
Dan
Lawrence Wasserman wrote: ...
And, also unfortunately, vice versa... :)
The Goose was primarily made of birch...
djb
There is but _one_ whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis, and the best are from Lake Superior, where the cold water makes their flesh firm and tasty.
"White wood" out east can include hemlock, about which many here appear confused. Used to mean (true) poplar in our area until the westerners started selling aspen.
Nor is it a fir. Just to muddy the waters, its genus is Pseudotsuga, or "false Hemlock."
Seems this thread always doubles back on itself....
OH Damn! how about I just blame you for my error of inserting spruce for hemlock? Or better yet let's both blame WillR for our mistakes.
That BASTID! Let's GET him!
;-)
djb
Not here. Whitefish is a specific game fish. Not a fisherman and don't know what the species is.
"white" fish, "whitefish"...
"George" wrote in news:42fcf67b$1 snipped-for-privacy@newspeer2.tds.net:
George, I would (wood) never think of hemlock as "whitewood" cause I have about 15 acres of it here in the Catskills. When I mill it, the color is definitely not like the color of SPF. It's more brownish and reddish. It may be included in SPF, but I've not seen any. We have a garbage wood up here called 'poplar' it's not good for much. It definitely does not look like hemlock. Hemlock is an evergreen and this stuff looks like it wants to be a birch in another 30 or 40 thousand years. Regards, Hank
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