Balsa Wood Waterski Core Culls Conversion
03-03-2023, 10:41 AM
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Balsa Wood Waterski Core Culls Conversion
By a rare occurrence, it has come into my possession over 100, 1/2 inch thick, flat balsa waterski production blank boards from an older gentleman in Baxter Springs, Kansas USA. The oldest cowtown in Kansas, which was just before Dodge City.
Some of it is soft grade, less is medium hardness, so not high grade, but not terrible; with apparently 100 year of shelf wear and spider carcasses. My question is:
"What is a good (cost effective) way to turn that into useful material for model airplanes?"
The cheap hand sheet slicers on the 'net for making sticks, don't look like they could easily slice the thick boards into sticks. I can only think to cut them up into thinnest possible strips with a table saw and then split those with hand slicer. I have plenty of boards, yes, but the saw dust pile from the table saw would be impressive. Some of the boards would appear to make good solid balsa 1/2 A U/C wing blanks, maybe.
Any ideas?
John in Joplin
Some of it is soft grade, less is medium hardness, so not high grade, but not terrible; with apparently 100 year of shelf wear and spider carcasses. My question is:
"What is a good (cost effective) way to turn that into useful material for model airplanes?"
The cheap hand sheet slicers on the 'net for making sticks, don't look like they could easily slice the thick boards into sticks. I can only think to cut them up into thinnest possible strips with a table saw and then split those with hand slicer. I have plenty of boards, yes, but the saw dust pile from the table saw would be impressive. Some of the boards would appear to make good solid balsa 1/2 A U/C wing blanks, maybe.
Any ideas?
John in Joplin
