On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 13:06:15 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

On 4/6/2016 9:45 AM, OFWW wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 00:30:14 -0500, Leon wrote:

OFWW wrote:
I am about to order the material for my kitchen cabinets.

For the ff's, is there any preference for hard or soft maple. Keep in
mind I will be painting the whole enchilada.

I've got a good sale price of 46 bucks a sheet of mdf plywood core
3/4". A competitor for J Classic Lam.

Found a good local source hardwood business that has a number of
stores around So. Cal.

I was thinking that hard maple would be stronger, but does soft have
an advantage for glue ups?

I am building a mobile rack for the plywood, hope to have it finished
and rolling, tomorrow.


IMHO soft is plenty strong but not as dent resistant as with the hard.
Soft will also be easier to mill.

I was thinking about the latter part, they said their stuff was s3s.
Is it possible to compare the softness against Oak?


Soft Maple depending on which soft maple has a hardness on the Jenka
scale is 700-950. Oak, again on which variety ranges from 1290 for red
oak to 1360 on white oak. Hard Sugar maple 1450.

So possibly as much as twice as hard.

All things considered do you have a preference? For painting and
durability?