Turned Aspis Project in Progress

[M. Demetrius]

A guy at the wood store gave me a large earful about the difference (from his perspective) on hardwoods, and softwoods. His take is that all deciduous trees are hardwoods, and all conifer trees are softwoods. With that definition, balsa is a hardwood. He explained that the question I was asking would better be phrased as "dense or less dense", which is what I was really asking.

Oak is dense, white pine is less dense. I found myself thinking, "Gimme a piece of 3" white pine, and let me bounce it off your head, bub, and we'll see if you think it's hard or not" after about 5 minutes of arboretical science info. All I wanted was some white oak. Gee.