Your own stained balsa design will act as veneer on a more durable wooden board. Design your own wood "mosaic" on a piece of ¼-inch thick plywood for a table runner that will instantly elevate ...

Afterward, Elwell commissioned Bauguess to shape a replica of the balsa wood board out of Styrofoam. Bauguess then shaped several more like it for other people. Eventually, he continues ...

When Jack O’Neill began surfing in San Francisco in the early 1950s, taking off during his lunch hour to plunge into the frigid, fog-covered waters of Ocean Beach with a balsa-wood board ...

After testing various wood types, Schwarze found balsa wood to be able to hold on to its stiffness and compressive strength after being exposed to the fungus. Through spectroscopy, a scientific ...

According to a paper recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, engineers at Sweden’s Linköping University successfully altered balsa wood by first leeching it of ...

For years, balsa wood has been a key component in the giant rotor blades on the top of wind turbines. Most of it comes from the rain forests of South America and, in particular, from Ecuador.