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Thread: Secondary Wood Choice

  1. #16
    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!

  2. #17
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    I use pine

    Quote Originally Posted by JohnM Martin View Post
    How do you go about selecting secondary wood choices for a given piece? Are there “best practice” combinations or rules of thumb combinations to consider?

    I’m thinking about building a tool chest out of white oak with a couple of drawers. What would be good to use for the drawer sides/back to pair with white oak fronts... besides poplar (never been a fan of how poplar looks)? Is it “acceptable” to use pine with oak or is mixing hard and soft woods a no-no?
    I use white pine as secondary wood when making solid wood stuff but my main wood is mahogany. I love that combination although in the last 30 years I work only in a few projects involving only solid wood as most of my projects involved (high grade) plywood.
    All the best.

    Osvaldo.

  3. #18
    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

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