Putting a classic back in play

[silver & black]

On 10/8/2018 at 10:29 PM, chemclub said:

This thread is just fantastic! Damn that whipping looks tedious.

So why persimmon wood in the first place? Is it just known to be really hard and light? Why not oak heads?

Oak is hard enough, but it is a very ring porous wood. Because of that, it has a lot of pith (soft, spongy cells) surrounded by the harder wood. Oak is also prone to rotting when out doors because it is so ring porous.