Interesting efforts, John!
Rob brought up one of the advantages of wood that I failed to mention.
It's density is about right to help control resonances and handling
noises compared to some of the lighter-wight materials one might
consider. Your yoga-block arrays look great, for example. Nice and
light. But I would expect that material to propagate handling noises
much more than wood. What have you experienced!
Curt Olson
John Hartog wrote:
> An alternative to wood?
> Here is a link to photos of some of my experiments with foam yoga
> block arrays.
> http://www.rockscallop.org/how/yba/yoga-block-arrays.html
>
> I do have test audio for all of these - might add it later or on
> request.
>
> John Hartog
>
>
> --- In "oryoki2000" <>
> wrote:
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>> The designs of Curt Olsen and David Michael both employ relatively
>> thick pieces of wood, to the point that they might better be
>> described as lumber! Is it necessary to employ such thick materials
>> to achieve the best result? Does wood have characteristics (other
>> than price) that make it more desirable than alternative materials?
>>
>> --oryok
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