Lightest coring wood?

Double-Dave

Double-Dave

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Hi,

I am looking for the lightest wood (or other material) suitable for coring, disregarding
playing/tonal properties. Maple is an obvious choice and you can get a fairly light piece
of maple, probably around 40 lbs/ft3 or 650 kg/m3 but I am looking for something
considerably lighter if available.

Maybe laminated bamboo but that seems to vary an awful lot? Something else?

gr. Dave
 
No good since I cannot glue a pin inside a tube (aka air).
Off course you can plug the tube but then the question is the same,
what do I plug it with that is as light as possible but still strong enough
to hold the pin?

gr. Dave
 
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Haven't had it in person but according to google not really any lighter then maple.
Not sure if anyone has hand on experience (and is willing to admit it :grin-square:).

gr. Dave
 
lightest coring

Think you may have a tough situation.
Trying to go light by coring. But do you need the stability of the core.
And then you need to put the pin into the wood.
I wouldn't be comfortable putting a pin in balsa.
How about you put a maple plug in both ends of carbon fiber
and fill the middle with something super light.
Since you aren't worried about tone. How about a light expanding foam.
Good luck and please let us know how you did it and how it came out.
 
cutter said:
Think you may have a tough situation.
Trying to go light by coring. But do you need the stability of the core.
And then you need to put the pin into the wood.
I wouldn't be comfortable putting a pin in balsa.
How about you put a maple plug in both ends of carbon fiber
and fill the middle with something super light.
Since you aren't worried about tone. How about a light expanding foam.
Good luck and please let us know how you did it and how it came out.
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Hi Steve,

Don't want to go into too much detail, but you got the essence of the problem right.
Going light by coring but stable enough to hold a pin, hollow room won't cut it in this project.

Definitely not going to use balsa as it is way too soft imo. Lightest wood I can find so far that
I would be comforable with using is Koa, it is around 30% lighter then hard maple but maybe
there is something lighter still around.

gr. Dave
 
Some more suggestions have reached me thru PM and email, thanks for that.
I will hopefully be getting some particularly light Koa which sounds promising
but the lightest suggestion so far has been Tornillo wood.

I know Lomax uses it for his jump cues and I only hear good things about those
so it seems the wood is strong and stable enough to hold a pin.

Anyone else had any experince with Tornillo? I actually have some lying around
so it will be tried out anyway.

gr. Dave
 
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It sounds like you have what you need, but I am also in the Koa group. The lightest I have used is around 33.
 
conetip said:
It has been used longer than you might think Joey, Since 2004 that I know of, maybe longer by other makers.
Neil
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Stealth bought the license from Ned Morris around 2001 iirc.
Ned came up with a balsa cored dymondwood handle for jumper.
 
koa

I have a piece of koa that is 1.55 by 1.54 cut octagon 29.5 inches long. It weights 16.5 oz. Will that be light enough?
 
desi2960 said:
I have a piece of koa that is 1.55 by 1.54 cut octagon 29.5 inches long. It weights 16.5 oz. Will that be light enough?
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Hi Chuck,

That is probably 10 to 20% heavier then the Tornillo I have in stock, I will be able to weigh it thursday.

gr. Dave
 
I sure would like to know what the insanity is all about. :grin:
Please, no LD butt. :grin-square:
 
Only if you know the super secret handshake.
But, a real question, are the pins of the stealth cues actually in the balsa?

gr. Dave
 
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