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Old 06-14-2011, 01:50 AM
Rich Pauza Rich Pauza is offline
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My favorite is called Baltic Birch.

It's pricey - but it works bad ass.

Two coments - # 1 When using ANY kind of woods - were you will be tac welding ( on buck ) wrap 2 pc's of the heavyest aluminum foil you can find over your buck & under your weld seems - even small amounts of heat will draw the resins up out of the wood & into your tac weld - the result is a tac that looks like a chunk of lunar rock.

#2 Kind of surprized it was not mentioned yet, buy for me anyway, the biggest plus to an aluminum or steel buck Or even concrete is the fact you can use so much more heat when you are forming aluminum or copper. Un beleivable amounts of ( heat shrink ) can happen while working over material that wont catch on fire....!

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