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Offline Easternarcher

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Specific Gravity of bow wood?
« on: April 03, 2007, 01:30:31 pm »
just found out the S.G. of Jatoba is about .90....anybody know what IPE might be? or maybe elm?
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Offline snedeker

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Re: Specific Gravity of bow wood?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2007, 03:26:18 pm »
Ipe is a little over 1.0

American elm is a bit over .55

Dave
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Offline Badger

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Re: Specific Gravity of bow wood?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2007, 03:47:35 pm »
      You will have an average density for differetn types of wood and find that some woods adhere closer to these averages than others, most woods I have seen have a huge range of difference in density. Thats why I have gone to the mass method instead of the width method. Steve
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Offline Coo-wah-chobee

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Re: Specific Gravity of bow wood?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2007, 09:46:47 pm »
 ...................................... Ipe can run like Dave (Snedecker) said a little over 1.0. That said I get ipe boards from brazil. This stuff has a specific gravity of  about 1.4. I've gotten a lot of it and its always pretty close. Like Steve said a lot of woods also can have a wide range of density. Mass method sounds sensible to me................bob
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Re: Specific Gravity of bow wood?
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2007, 09:34:20 am »
Sorry, don't a link or South American/Tropical hardwoods.

http://www.windsorplywood.com/nam_hardwoodspage.html
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