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Block Balsa
Block Balsa has many uses, including:
- Model aeroplanes: you can find a lot of aeroplanes and gliders made from Balsa, , particularly for hobbyists who wish to create lightweight, strong and flexible planes.
- Boats and surfboards: Watercraft like boats and surfboards are made by placing it between layers of fibreglass to buttress its flexibility and strength,
- Furniture: Designers are increasingly turning to balsa wood as a material for furniture, lauding its sustainability as a fast-growing tree along with its aesthetic properties.
- Musical string instruments: Designer of musical instruments, particularly string instruments like violins, use balsa for its excellent acoustics.
- Model bridges: It is useful for students of Design and Technology and engineering who need to build model bridges as part of the curriculum
Length Balsa
Length Balsa can be used for many things including:
- Surfboards: balsa is a remarkably fantastic material for surfboards. Many of the world's finest surfboards are shaped using balsa as their inner-core material, providing ample buoyancy and world-class performance characteristics.
- Prop Building: using balsa as a prop-building material allows for fast efficient development to take place, using a renewable resource that is both light-weight yet strong, and of course easy to work with.
- Furniture: Designers are increasingly turning to balsa wood as a material for furniture, lauding its sustainability as a fast-growing tree along with its aesthetic properties.
Sheet Balsa
Sheet Balsa has many uses,including:
- Model aeroplanes: you can find a lot of aeroplanes and gliders made from Balsa, , particularly for hobbyists who wish to create lightweight, strong and flexible planes.
- Boats and surfboards: Watercraft like boats and surfboards are made by placing it between layers of fibreglass to buttress its flexibility and strength,
- Furniture: Designers are increasingly turning to balsa wood as a material for furniture, lauding its sustainability as a fast-growing tree along with its aesthetic properties.
- Musical string instruments: Designer of musical instruments, particularly string instruments like violins, use balsa for its excellent acoustics.
- Model bridges: It is useful for students of Design and Technology and engineering who need to build model bridges as part of the curriculum
