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What should I make out of a pre-packaged assortment of balsa wood?; I've already made a dagger and a small shield
Topic Started: Sunday 6-06-2010, 01:32 (272 Views)
Starwolf
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Basically, the package comes with a variety of sizes of balsa. I got bored last May-June, and now I kinda want to make more stuff. Pics will come after I eat dinner.
Suggestions?
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Luca
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Bow and arrow, Boomerang, ocarina and HOOKSHOT
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Megaton Hammer.
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Starwolf
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>_> I should have figured you were going to suggest Zelda stuffs.
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little balsa wood morgan freeman
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Make Popsicles :)
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Luca
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Starwolf
Sunday 6-06-2010, 01:44
>_> I should have figured you were going to suggest Zelda stuffs.
GLASS JAR
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So useful
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I should make Navi...
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DEKU STICK

owait...
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Starwolf
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Boomerang would be pretty easy.
I could do the bow, but it would be fairly small.
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Make Dymlos and I shall have your babies.
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Starwolf
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I had to google that... >_<. It looks quite doable.
Also, Phant posting reminded me of the possibilities of the Tales weapons.
Edited by Starwolf, Sunday 6-06-2010, 02:19.
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Sunday 6-06-2010, 01:40
Bow and arrow, Boomerang, ocarina and HOOKSHOT
this
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i had a project in high school were we made a bridge out of that, it was surprisingly strong considering that i had to be careful writing numbers on the wood because the pencil would cut into it.
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(The pics are kinda large)

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Totally a Kokiri Sword and Deku Shield, and should be painted as such >_>b
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Tell me more about balsa wood.
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Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as Balsa, (also O. Lagopus) is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a large, fast-growing tree that can grow up to 30 m (100 ft) tall. Balsa trees are native from southern Brazil and Bolivia north to southern Mexico however Ecuador supplies 95 percent or more of commercial Balsa. In recent years about 60 percent of the Balsa has been plantation grown in densely packed patches of 50 to 100 trees per hectar (compared to about two to three per hectare in nature).[2] It is evergreen, or dry-season deciduous if the dry season is long, with large (30–50 cm/12–20 in) weakly palmately lobed leaves. Trees are classified as hardwood because of the shape of their leaves, so Balsa, with its large broad leaves is classified as hardwood despite being very soft. It is the softest commercial hardwood. The trees are harvested after 6 to 10 years of growth. The name Balsa comes from the Spanish word for "raft."

Balsa lumber is very soft and light with a coarse, open grain. The density of dry balsa wood ranges from 40–340 kg/m³ (2.5-21 lb/ft³), with a typical density of about 160 kg/m³ (10 lb/ft³).[3]

The light weight of the wood derives from the fact that the tree has large cells that contain water. After the water is driven off in an extended drying process (kiln dried for 2 weeks,) the large surface area of the resulting holes give strength. Unlike dry rotted wood, the surface is made of the usual strong cellulose/lignin mix.

As it is low-density but high in strength, balsa is a very popular material to use when making light, stiff structures in model bridge tests and for the construction of model aircraft as well as full-sized light wooden aeroplanes, most famously the World War II de Havilland Mosquito.
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Damnit starwolf, we're BFFs I wanted it in your own words.
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