Woodworking

8509 readers

2 users here now

A handmade home for woodworkers and admirers of woodworkers. Our community icon is submitted by @inquanto@lemmy.world, winner of the Christmas 2025 gift contest with a lovely series of hardwood cutting boards.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

NataliePortland@lemmy.ca

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

[Answered]Is there a wood hard enough to regularly scrape aluminum? (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by idiomaddict@feddit.de to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I’m sorry if this is not in the spirit of the community, but I figured my dad would know because of his experience woodworking, and I don’t want to ask him for obvious reasons. I’m happy to remove it if it doesn’t fit.

I have an aluminum herb grinder, that regularly gets jammed up with resin. I tend to use a regular (probably pine) food skewer to clean it off, because I don’t want metal shards coming off of the aluminum from a metal scraper or plastic pieces from a plastic scraper. The pine works okay, but I have to replace it regularly and it can’t get everything.

I know pine is probably one of the softest woods, but would a hard wood be significantly more durable if it were cut as thin as a skewer (4mm diameter round)? Would anything be both reasonably obtainable (I live in a place with frequently abandoned old furniture, if that would be a good source, or I can go to a lumber store) and more durable enough to be worth it?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] VargVikernes@eviltoast.org 1 points 2 years ago

FOR FREE CLEAN IT UP DILATE DILATE COPE ON LEMMY SEETHE DILATE SUCK SNEED SEED COPE JANNIES HOT POCKETS JANNY CHUCK SNEED HOT POCKETS ON LEMMY JANNIES CHUCK DILATE I CAN'T DILATE SNEED AND I CAN'T SEED DILATE ON LEMMY CITY SLICKER CLEAN IT UP ON LEMMY DILATE JANNIES AND AND CHUCK SUCK JANNIES FOR FREE FEED AND FOR FREE SUCK SEED I CAN'T SNEED FEED DILATE