So I finally got around to completing the project I was interested in, just for the sake of seeing if it could be done. Here were the constraints of my project:
1) Build a series of blades only out of woods that commonly grow in Oregon
2) Place an emphasis on using wood that isn't grown at all outside of the Pacific Northwest Region
3) Mass produce some handles (I made 18, to be exact), which tends to be the most tedious part for how I was building them
4) No jointed pieces of wood for any layers (all layers, including core woods, are a single/solid/continuous piece of wood)
So, ladies and gentleman, I give you the Pacific Northwest Blade series:
-They're all between 5.55 and 5.95 mm thick
-Weights between 85 and 91 grams.
-All of them use douglas fir as the medial ply.
-The outer plies are western larch, walnut, and douglas fir.
-Core woods are western red cedar and engelmann spruce.
-Handle woods are Red Alder and Giant/Golden Chinkapin, either by themselves or in combination with each other.
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