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Haha...actually, I thought long and hard about your post, B. I have no doubt that the spirit of it was right on, but your choice of the word, "brittle", kind of through me off. Subject to fracturing as a result of lack of flexibility, it seems a little different from brittle, when the wood is...

I believe that Brian is essentially correct. The older wood in the center of the tree is considered harder and stronger, sometimes by as much as fifty percent (species variation). I assume that the tendency to resist bending, and break when the wood reaches a certain point of tension or...