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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:27 am    Post subject: Hard woods Reply with quote

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I am not any where near as knowledgeable about the various kinds of wood available to builders to make rib dies, or anything else but I have been making all kinds of things out of wood for about 60 years and In my opinion based on experience nothing can beat oak. If you make it out of oak it will still be serviceable when all on this list are cooling their heels in pilot heaven. As one of you said, there are man made composite materials like super hard plastics that can be cut, shaped, etc with wood working tools but I have no idea what their life span would be.

Bob Stone, Harker Heights, Tx
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Hard woods Reply with quote

I asked that question about a year ago and found that the consensus was MDF. I used the premium MDF and made my wing rib forms just about 10 months ago then sealed them with poly urethane. Here we are now taking them off the self and cutting the reliefs (crimps) in them to begin forming. They are real flat and true and I only need em to make one right and one left hand part. I think they will be just fine.

I was careful with the nose rib form and made 9 rights and 9 lefts on them and they held up OK. I did make a small aluminum block so smooth out the very forward radius.

The nice thing about the MDF is it works real quick and is fairly cheap. Oak might take more time but will last forever, are you going into production?


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