"charlieb" wrote in message
...

Please have a look at the following, pick out the
woods that you've found survive "pith in" and
the ones that haven't and see where they are
on the chart. Is the T/R Ratio a good "predictor"
for you?

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T..._TR_ratio.html

Thanks for having a look at all this stuff and
for your observations and suggestions.


All of the family salicaceae are virtually bulletproof in drying. That's
the right end of your chart. Cottonwoods, poplars and willows. Short of
throwing them in the afternoon sun, they survive.

Not to beat the horse too much, but there are lists of working and drying
properties already compiled by the kind but misguided, group of
pseudoscientific pedantics over in Madison.