which wood is stronger, plywood or engineering wood?
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engineered wood is stronger.
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stronger? do you mean how much vertical load it can support?
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if you really think a new club will help get a wood at the loft you need, i'm not a fan of the hybrids but you should still be able to get a wood with the loft you want. an 18-22 degree sounds like it might work
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I would think plywood is the number one use. Some other uses come from the source below: "Wood dust is used to prepare charcoal, as an absorbent for nitroglycerin, as a filler in\nplastics, and in linoleum and paperboard (NTP 2001). Another commercial use for wood\ndust is in wood composts (Weber et al. 1993). "
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Most boards at the minute are made of 5 or 7 ply Canadian Maple. which is pressed into shape and given a concave for added strenght, and then coated to give it a smooth finish,\n\nas for the future. i have to agree ^^^^^^ Carbon fibre is amazing, but at this moment in time, its hella expensive!
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You don't want to go with wood. They don't last. Anything by Easton would be a fine choice.
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How about Timber - wood, for ship building. Canada has lots of lumber and the Brits were really, really into ship building around that time.\n\nGood Luck
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Southern White Pine.\n\nKnown for it's strength and height. Your best sturdy boards are made of it. ..and cost worthy.
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It's cheaper.  There is a movement, though, to switch to wood in high schools and college.  Metal bats are considerably more dangerous.
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It makes very little difference assuming equal thicknesses, because the insulating factor for both wood and brick are very poor. How much "good" insulation you have in each case makes the difference. Materials like fiberglass are three or more times more effective than either wood or brick. \n\nAs a side note. Most house today are not made of brick but only have a brick veneer over a wood frame.
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Ash seems to be the best combination of light weight and strength.  It is not as hard a wood as maple which is a heavier wood.  I don't think other woods such as hickory, pine (excluding pine tar), and willow are in very wide use, if any use at all these days.  Ash is the most widely used, Barry Bonds uses a maple bat.
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Typically when a material is refered to as strong, you are refering to its mechanical property can 'Tensile Strength' - How much force you can pull it with before it breaks.\n\nIt terms of what makes one material strong compared to another, is related to many factors - On a microscopic level, basically how easy it is for discontinuities in the material to move.\n\nWith reference to your concrete example, the reason concrete of a skyscraper is strong, primary is because it is steel reinforced; steel bars are embeded inside the concrete - The combination of steel and concrete is a good one because steel is very strong in tension (which concrete is not) but concrete is very good in compression.\n\nWhen you combine different materials like this, the resulting material is refered to as a composite. Composites presently are the best structural materials that we have; examples are fiberglass/polyester and  carbon/epoxy. Carbon/epoxy is extremely popular for aerospace structures because of its high strength and low weight, as well as its durability. When composites first appeared, they were very expensive and limited to really hi-tech applications like aerospace, but today you can find them everywhere - golf club shafts are commonly carbon/epoxy for example.
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Choose your poison. Maple has a finish on it to prevent staining, but many peoplr like the "positive" feel when chording. Rosewood has no finish on it (unless you're looking at a Rickenbacker) and since it is naturally oily will, in my opinion, be a faster playing fingerboard.
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drywall,brick,4x4 plywood from home depot.
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Less dense materials are better insulators. The denser the material, the closer its atoms are together. That means the transfer of energy of one atom to the next is more effective. Thus, gases insulate better than liquids, which in turn insulate better than solids.\n\nAn interesting fact is that poor conductors of electricity are also poor heat conductors. Wood is a much better insulator than copper. The reason is that metals that conduct electricity allow free electrons to roam through the material. This enhances the transfer of energy from one area to another in the metal. Without this ability, the material--like wood..AND IN YOUR CASE RUBBER--does not conduct heat well.
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Carved from red cedar trees. Red cedar is the best choice because it is a soft wood with a straight grain and it grows large enough in diameter.\n\nAlthough it depends upon what part of the country your in.  There are totem poles utilized by different tribes around the world including small tropical islands.
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goal posts were made from wood earlier. But, now of metal due to durablilty. Still, woodwork sounds better than 'metalwork'