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Trying to get the Mechanical Properties of Wood Chart to post automatically and I have failed...
Pull up the pdf and look at pages 2,3, and 4. The numbers are small and the chart is dense. Phones need not apply as the chart is big. For stock purposes, even the 12% dry numbers are not very useful except as rules of thumb.
There is no doubt there is some latitude in using marginal woods and there is the occasional very dense, hard specimen in a given species which will have significantly better chances of making a decent stock. A great example is bigleaf maple where denser examples are the only NA hardwood that exceeds walnuts in most important properties applying to stocks...
