The most recent exception is I'm making 1/16" hickory veneers for laminating together into the plywood of a skateboard. Skateboards are generally 7-ply slow growth Canadian maple. That was all fine and good when I was 130lbs and couldn't buy my own cigarettes but it's less so nowadays. Hickory's heavier than maple but it also takes a lot more to break by applying force perpendicular to the grain. Bamboo is as well and it's lighter than either of them but it flexes way more than maple and way way more than hickory.
Are you thinking of a composite laminate? Seems like a combo of alternating bamboo and hickory or maple might give a nice combination of strength, stiffness, and weight. Also, what are you thinking of gluing it together with? Apparently, normal wood glue is too rigid for something that flexes a lot - so YouTube tells me.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 15 2020, @03:48AM
Are you thinking of a composite laminate? Seems like a combo of alternating bamboo and hickory or maple might give a nice combination of strength, stiffness, and weight. Also, what are you thinking of gluing it together with? Apparently, normal wood glue is too rigid for something that flexes a lot - so YouTube tells me.