Density of Hammer Mouldings

[John Delacour]

At 16:46 -0400 21/9/08, Tom Servinsky wrote:

>Soft white maple will be one of the, if not the, lightest of all 
>molding choices.

But is soft maple (relative density up to 0.56) used for hammer 
mouldings?  Hard maple is about 0.8, almost the same as the hornbeam 
that is used in Europe, where maple is not used.


Details of many woods can be found here:

<http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/wood/english/>

JD