ORIGINAL: brickhead179
What sucks more than anything is im 16 years old so money isn't an endless pool. I need balsa wood for my custom jet that im framing and my lhs sells balsa wood streamer ( balsa sticks) for almost 1.50! Thats cheap alone but in bulk thats a ton of dough for me. My engineering teacher has at least 1200 streamers at his disposal that we never use and he won't give me 8! I hate it when im impatient to finish a plane and my resources have run dry![&:] Anyone else have this problem? ( oh and could i possibly use fiberglass to cover the wood cheeting on my plane? Or would monokote be better?
Google Lone Star Balsa and break away from buying wood in hobby shops. They sell Mid West wood and it's really high dollar stuff. You won't find any scratch builders buying there wood from a hobby shop unless they need a size that they don't have in stock, that happens quite often and I can go to Hobby people or Michael's and get a stick or two. Just have to pay through the nose for it. Balsa USA is another good wood sorce but a bit more money.
