Although not wishing to encourage the xylophilia too much, I notice that
the list has retreated to a discussion of woods; specifically that Peter
Redstone wrote:
>The lightest hardwood I could find during a perfunctory perusal is balsa
I thought balsa was the stuff used for model airplanes. Granted it is
light, but my memory of it is as rather soft and quite whittle-able (?)
with a blunt and rusty penknife.
Or is the definition of "hardwood" not as hard as I expect?
david