Re: Bass vs Obechi

Baking Soda is like Viagra to CA, if you know what I mean....  ;-)

I once tried making home-made, low-budget CA accelerator by putting a baking
soda solution in a little pump spray bottle.  It didn't work real well so I
spend the few dollars on the real thing.

Good flying,
desmobob

Twas me, I'll try that the next time I need it, thanks.
Greg

Bass is a great, straight-grained wood and is commonly used for servo rails,
spars, etc. Of course, you should always drill pilot holes for servo screws.

Obechi is a pretty wood if clear-coated, and is most often used as a veneer
sheeting. It's biggest problem is the wavy grain it has -- it's horrible to
plane or carve. It's also quite light.

Someone else mentioned Spruce as being slow to accept CA glues; to fix this
just sprinkle some baking soda in the palm of your hand and run the strip
through the powder, just get a thin coating then wipe most of it off.

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Hi,

I bought a couple of strips each of 1/8" x 3/8" obechi and bass wood today to
use as servo bearer reinforcements having got tired of slicing up 1/8" plywood
into strips.   I didn't buy spruce because it has a tendency to split when you
put screws into it.

I know it doesn't matter much for this application but can anyone tell me the
differences in these two woods (obechi and bass) when it comes to aeromodelling
?  Bass seems like a vewry good quality quite hard balsa and I would seriously
consider using it for wing spars and fuselage longerons where balsa's
variability can be a nuisance.  I know obechi is used for skinning foam wings
which presumeably means it's good for making into veneer but what is it good for
in strip form ?

Any comments welcome (probably :-)

Cheers,