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Re: Material: Whats your favorite material for you
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/14/2009, 12:47 am
In Response To: Material: Whats your favorite material for your forms? (Benjamin F)

: Whats your favorite material for your forms?

: Thickness?
: MDF?
: Plywood?
: etc.

Recently I tend to prefer MDO plywood for this. The sides are covered with a fiber material that's very smooth, easy to draw on and resists splitering when it's cut. Tends to be fairly inexpensive too.

Bill H.

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Material: Whats your favorite material for your forms?
Benjamin F -- 10/13/2009, 4:14 pm
Re: Material: Whats your favorite material for you
Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2009, 12:47 am
Re: Material: Whats your favorite material for you
Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2009, 4:30 pm
Re: Material: Whats your favorite material for you
Mike Savage -- 10/13/2009, 6:22 pm
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Robin Boys -- 10/13/2009, 5:10 pm
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Doug Smith -- 10/13/2009, 8:32 pm