Western Red Cedar or Aromatic Cedar for Bandsaw Boxes

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10-30-2011 04:29 PM

I am making band saw boxes and have yet to work with cedar, I have a customer wanting 3 boxes, one from Spalted Hackberry, Walnut and Cedar, so my question is which cedar is the normal for this type of box Western, or Aromatic or does it really matter?

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Jacob Lucas home \| projects \| blog 100 posts in 1254 days #1 posted 10-31-2011 08:18 AM	I’d go with Aromatic on the sole reason that Western Cedar has no real properties that Aromatic doesn’t have, and it’s sooo much prettier.
Blackie_ home \| projects \| blog 3737 posts in 1334 days #2 posted 10-31-2011 01:42 PM	Thanks Jacob -- Randy - If I'm not on LJ's then I'm making Saw Dust. Please feel free to visit my store location at http://www.facebook.com/randy.blackstock.custom.wood.designs
DS home \| projects \| blog 2141 posts in 1242 days #3 posted 11-01-2011 12:53 AM	Western Red Cedar—think #2 pencil wood. Bland grain. Supposedly has some traditional indian flute making applications though. -- "Hard work is not defined by the difficulty of the task as much as a person's desire to perform it.", DS251

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