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[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

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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?

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[–] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reeds would be good for something like this, you can usually find dried bamboo pretty cheap at craft stores or in the garden section in spring.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

That’s a very good idea, thank you!