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Thread: Poplar as a scale wood?
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01-31-2013, 01:49 AM #11......... Making Old Razors Shine N' Shave, Once Again.
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01-31-2013, 01:59 AM #12
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Thanked: 2284In my work experience, poplar is used as a cheap hardwood for paint grade applications. Its actually the highest quality, where a paint grade wood, would be used. Stair stringers, crown molding, door and window casing, solid wood doors or any other place you need a high quality product that will be painted. In my eyes I see it as a cheap, cheap, cheap hardwood. It is actually a soft hardwood in comparison to other hardwoods. That being said, it machines very nicely.
As wood scales for razors, I don't see it being a problem. I thought about using it the other day when I saw some poplar crown molding that had an area of black fading into a green. Looked awesome!!!! If you could fined the right hunk, you could get some attractive scales!!!Burls, Girls, and all things that Swirl....
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02-01-2013, 04:56 AM #13
Actually, very few burls are dense. Amboyna, Ironwood and Camphor are dense and common but most are soft and airy. That is the nature of burls and I have worked with hundreds of burls.