Bdnoble84 Posted Monday at 03:34 AM Report Share Posted Monday at 03:34 AM I have some wood that is confounding me. It Cedar. My neighbor that has a woodmill gave me a plank. It has wierd divisional coloring to me. Whats more i did some calculations on a couple of squares. The density is not making sense to me on top of the different colorations. The density of these two squares is wierd. They are .45 and .48 and .46. Cedar is expected to be .375. The piece i had befor from menard was .4. Much closer to standard expectation. I made about 20 blanks. If anyone has any thoughts i would love to hear them. I am attaching pictures of the wood and calculations. Second picture is of the original cedar calculation for the cedar i got from menards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted Monday at 01:34 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 01:34 PM Not a wood expert, but believe the light stuff is sap wood and the dark stuff is heartwood. If it was me would only use the heartwood. Arne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bdnoble84 Posted Monday at 03:24 PM Author Report Share Posted Monday at 03:24 PM 1 hour ago, Arne said: Not a wood expert, but believe the light stuff is sap wood and the dark stuff is heartwood. If it was me would only use the heartwood. Arne. Thank you. I will do some research on that, but what you say makes sense. I didnt mention, my blanks are as much as nearly a gram different in weight. I will play with a couple but since i am going for a consistent batch and wanting to play more with lip placement/angle variables, I may put them off to the side for now and get something more consistant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted Monday at 11:42 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 11:42 PM Knots are much heavier than clear wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
