More on the Wood Block Project

First, the exciting resolution of the central mystery of the last post: the diameter of the steel ball was chosen so as to make the circle resulting from performing the Janka test have area 100 mm^2.  Fascinating.

Today I went over to Mike's Lumber and ordered two blocks for my project, and bought a router bit.  Ron advised me to go with poplar, though he said oak would have been ok too.  Unfortunately, the somewhat surly guy who took my order said it would take 1 1/2 hours, so I had to come back.  Also unfortunately, I was never able to make it back.  In the words of Blanche duBois, tomorrow's another day.

My other bit of progress along the way was to make a template out of a piece of posterboard.  I think this is de rigueur  when using a router bit, though I'm sure posterboard is not "de right material" (ha!).