Thread: Is yours (wood) as hard as mine? New pics and blog

The truck looks like it's coming through the Amazon jungle. Anyway, nice pictures. The pool also looks like you are building the next waterbom park.

Interesting dressing room....why designer is creating dressing room instead of baby bedroom that is actually really useful :roll:

Markit,

Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ... :lol: I had the same reaction as lumumba did...

Actually, I thought mine was harder, but I checked and found it was not. The wood I had chosen for building my dive boat was bangkirai, as it had been recommended to me as being next to ironwood (of which there are many different types).

Bangkirai, has a Janka hardness of 8,000 Newtons (that is 1,798 lbs-force, in the retarded English system of units), and Merbau, 8,560 Newtons (1,925 lbs-force).

So, you beat me by 560 Newtons (127 lbs-force) :lol:

It may surprise some of you (some not) that the term "wood" in American English can also mean an erection - not, I hasten to add, of a building. :lol:

This fact may, but only "may", have had some influence on my choice of title - obviously, it worked in attracting the attention of those with lower (belt lever or lower) interest levels. 8)

Originally Posted by noodles

Interesting dressing room....why designer is creating dressing room instead of baby bedroom that is actually really useful

Noodles I gotta say I actually have read this several time and can't for the life of me figure out what you mean.... :roll:

Originally Posted by DCC

Always exciting when the wood arrives! Cheers.

Is it always that much fun? No wonder you build houses :D

Tintin, your partner must despair with you :lol: I can almost imagine that when someone says "Nice day, isn't it!" that your reply would fill a text book - as I said my wood is harder than yours :lol:

I had never heard of the term wood before watching "The Love Guru" after that it stuck :lol:

Eh, Markit, I thought you might learn something :mrgreen:

I'm always pleased and delighted to learn something and especially from such an illustrious source (grovel, grovel) but I have always found that the mere possession of some facts can lead to a dangerous illusion of knowing something.

Hence if my carpenter knew that Merbau was harder than Bankiri he might be willed to hit his nail harder thereby sacrificing accuracy for strength.

And further it could be postulated that this lack of accuracy might lead him to miss the nail in my Merbau that he was aiming at and strike and damage the wood. Then as a direct follow on from the knowledge that my wood was harder it would now be damaged

ipso facto - a little knowledge can cause damage and ignorance is bliss (and has nicer windows) :lol: