Stable woods for shooting boards

[Boothie14]

What hardwoods are considered to be stable?I am making a shooting board and I need a fence that wont move

 

[Philly]

If you use stock that is quartersawn (or close), you'll get least movement.
I don't think that timber movement is going to be a huge issue with a shooting board - just build one and get using it :wink:
Hope this helps
Philly

 

[OPJ]

As long as it's a hardwood and not pine, you won't go far wrong. With those kind of sections (2"x1" or less), you're unlikely to have any movement issues, as long as the timber's been seasoned.

 

[woodbloke]

plywood and mdf - Rob

 

[Ironballs]

Mine is iroko and mahogany, but only because they were cheap offcuts

 

[Grinding One]

Hedge,makes wonderful whatevers...very hard,last forever,cheap here grows wild everywhere....I have a few mallets of Hedge.

 

[studders]

We've only got Stone Hedge over here and that's way too big for a shootin Board.













Sorry.

 

[MikeG.]

Hedge,makes wonderful whatevers...very hard,last forever,cheap here grows wild everywhere....I have a few mallets of Hedge.

What was that film?.............




Ah yes............Lost in Translation.

G1, you'll have to give us a bit more of a clue than "Hedge". Over here, that isn't a species, it is a living boundary. My hedge has about 20 different species in it, none of which could ever be used for joinery.

Mike

 

[wizer]

He's mentioned Hedge as a timber before and I can't find any reference to it's species name. It seems differ as you move around the states. I suspect it's something like willow or even laburnum.

 

[newt]

What about a box hedge

 

[JMcK]

Osage Orange?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

Under "Cultivation"

and

"The heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is very dense and is prized for tool handles, treenails, fence posts, electrical insulators, and other applications requiring a strong dimensionally stable wood that withstands rot. Straight-grained osage timber (most is knotty and twisted) makes very good bows."