Malc, I'll tell you how I came to recognise them. I read a post the other week where you were talking about the ill effects of prolonged exposure to plastic-injection mchines in your family. Curiousity aroused as to what fittings you were making, I looked your firm up and voila... I recognised the range I'd been seeing all these years.
.. and I'll bet everyone in here is now thinking 'ah.. so that's who makes them'.
NHP651: thanks mate. I'm now looking for eiter a local shop (merseyside) or mailorder who sells a variety of wood. I'll probably send a sample of my plank with the request.
'Short grain':
yes, that's a term I'd use to describe it.
Very cheep and Nasty stuff to work withI didn't have too much trouble with it, as I remember. But then again, I didn't try to 'caulk' the strips. I just glued them down next to each other, then sanded with the grain.
One point, I'd probably get away with any of the softwood coloured hardwoods (cept balsa) for these planks as long as the tone of the colour matched? Do you think?