My criteria for secondary wood:
1) Is it cheaper than what I'm using?
2) Is it easier to work than what I'm using?
Usually this means poplar.
If I care too much about what the secondary wood looks like, then it's really not secondary wood at all!
My criteria for secondary wood:
1) Is it cheaper than what I'm using?
2) Is it easier to work than what I'm using?
Usually this means poplar.
If I care too much about what the secondary wood looks like, then it's really not secondary wood at all!
All the best.
Osvaldo.
Traditionally secondary woods were the inexpensive and easy to work woods available locally. In New England this meant white pine or occasionally sycamore in CT or RI. In the Mid-Atlantic states it was usually poplar and in the south southern yellow pine.
Dave Anderson
Chester, NH