Was given some old sheets from a balsa cutter from his garage / tin shed roof . Been Roasted anually for over ten years - well seasoned thus nice and stiff for wing sheeting .
Was a box of Mid West by the frosted glass back door that got the afternoon sun for a similar time in a stationary ( pens & papers ) shop - some good 1/4 quater grain from that lot .
AND still have the other half of the 3/4 x 4 sheet from the Mew Gulls Tail Plane - from last century . Plus over 300 sheets of selected matched grain in any useable thicknesses from
over the last 5 years , plus the strip & spruce .
Then theres a Cap 21 R.C. kit I grabbed FOR THE WOOD , this is pretty good , as it dates back to 1980 or so - so thrirty years on it should be pretty stable .
Looked on google maps at the TREES at my old house, wattles . One guyfawkes after a few beers , sharpened the axe and put the chain block on the tree and pulled it back so it wouldnt fall
over the wall / on the road . As it was all leaning over where the rest of the row were Vertical . Darn TOUGH trees - or was it something else , sharpened the axe four times , got nowhere
ecept ruining the Axe as the edge went all waveey , so ran out the extension leads and blew up the skill saw trying that . General disgust and defeat meant the chain block stayed tied off and ignored
untill next needed most of three weeks later .
After two pulls on the chain , the rope was loose - with the B#*^?y tree sitting nice and vertical , as it apears still to this day .
This tells us timber is a liveing material and the Lord works in mysterious ways .