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Probably so, my guys carry calipers. :)

Nice job. I think it was one of your guys that said on the vid, "A perfect hinge as usual". I don't think I have ever heard that expression before. :lol:

Sig, I recall that Yew has very hard sap wood, possibly as hard or close to as hard as the heart wood. Yew has other very unusual characteristics as well, some kind of spirituality where different cultures like to plant it around graves and also use it to make religious tools. I don't believe...

I have to say that I have messed with a whole heck of a lot of planks with both heartwood and sap wood in them, and have never been given an indication that sapwood has more resiliency than the other. I could accept that maybe in living trees with the high moisture content, in some species the...

Elm is one of the best woods for split to not run out. Why it was used for wagon hubs and wooden gears on flour grinding machines.

It's an interesting thing too, some wood will bend better without the fibers separating, after it has dried out a bit. At least steam bending wood has that characteristic.

What is meant by "dormant fiber"? You are referring to fiber that has lost moisture content? If dormant simply means that it is no longer growing, you have to be specific about moisture content to know to what degree the hinge wood is affected. Dead high moisture content wood reacts the same...