"Bill" wrote in message
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"Leon" wrote in message
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SYP is pretty hard considering it is clasified as a hsoft wood, harder
than poplar for instance.


The "index card" that Woodsmith sent me lists White Pine as soft and
Yellow Pine as hard. It just occurred to me: maybe they mean in the sense
of actually working the wood, rather than it's "botanical classification"!

Bill


SYP is a hard "softwood". IIRC hard and soft woods are classified as to the
width of the leaves on the tree. Long and narrow/thin leaf, soft wood.
Broad leaf, hard wood.