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Sheet Balsa
£1.57 – £5.81 inc. VAT
Sheet Balsa has many uses,including:
- Model aeroplanes:Â 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:Â Watercraft like boats and surfboards are made by placing it between layers of fibreglass to buttress its flexibility and strength,
- Furniture:Â 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:Â Designer of musical instruments, particularly string instruments like violins, use balsa for its excellent acoustics.
- Model bridges:Â It is useful for students of Design and Technology and engineering who need to build model bridges as part of the curriculum
Description
About Sheet Balsa
Sheet balsa, lightweight and versatile, is becoming increasingly popular among hobbyists. This incredibly malleable material can be readily cut, bent, and molded into whatever shape you desire – making it perfect for crafts of all kinds. Sheet balsa is particularly favored by modelers and carpenters as it’s pliable enough to carve details not normally attainable. Sheet balsa is surprisingly stable when properly treated – able to resist external forces like high winds, corrosion, and wood-rot without deteriorating. Sheet balsa’s anti-corrosive properties makes it a great option for outdoor projects such as boat building or furniture repair. Sheet Balsa’s sheer versatility makes it a must have for any task that requires making something from scratch!
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Sheet Balsa
These are thin, lightweight sheets of balsa wood that are commonly used in craft projects, model building, and other applications where a lightweight, strong, and flexible material is needed. Balsa wood is a type of softwood that is known for its low density and high strength-to-weight ratio, which makes it an ideal choice for many different projects.
One of the key benefits of using balsa wood sheets is their lightweight and easy-to-work-with nature. It is also relatively soft and easy to cut and shape, which makes it a popular choice for use in craft projects and other applications where precision is important.
Despite its lightweight and softness, it is actually quite strong. It has a high strength-to-weight ratio, which means that it is able to withstand significant forces without breaking or collapsing. This makes balsa wood sheets an ideal choice for use in a variety of structural applications, including model building and the construction of small structures. –>
Additional information
| Length |
915mm |
|---|---|
| Width |
75mm ,100mm |
| Thickness |
0.8mm ,1.6mm ,2.4mm ,3.2mm ,4.8mm ,6.4mm ,9.6mm ,12.6mm |
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Collection & Delivery
COLLECTIONS: MON-FRI 7:30AM-5PM
With current COVID considerations afoot we endeavour to deliver to you to limit the foot-traffic on site. In circumstances where you wish to collect your order we manage this using a time-slot calendar whereby our team will contact you following completion of your order and advise of available time-slots within which you are able to collect your items from our site.
Should you have any concerns and wish to discuss prior to completing your order we advise calling ahead on 01757 270233. Collection service available from Y08 8LG.
Should we experience any highway or supply delays you will be notified immediately and offered another time slot.
DELIVERY: MON-FRI 8AM-4:30PM
All orders must be placed and reserved before a delivery slot is allocated, we require at least 24hours notice to ensure we include your order on our run.
Whilst we see the vast majority of deliveries completed within the working week, we ask that you allow up to 10 working days during exceptionally busy periods. If your post code is not in our delivery database we offer an arranged delivery which can be payed separately over the phone or upon delivery.
All deliveries adhere to the Government COVID guidelines.
If you have a cutting list we will need to pass this over to our saw mill. They will advise a suitable turn around for completion which will impact your delivery time. Due to busy periods we are very rarely able to do this on the same day!
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Block Balsa
Block Balsa has many uses, including:
- Model aeroplanes:Â 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:Â Watercraft like boats and surfboards are made by placing it between layers of fibreglass to buttress its flexibility and strength,
- Furniture:Â 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:Â Designer of musical instruments, particularly string instruments like violins, use balsa for its excellent acoustics.
- Model bridges:Â 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:Â 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:Â 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:Â 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.
- Please NOTE: Due to the nature of this material, some of the lengths may bow or change in shape.Â
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