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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 34
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 34

by Mark Frauenfelder
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
6h 34m
English
Make: Community
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IRONWOOD

One of the world’s great engineering materials grows on trees.

By Tim Heffernan

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Lignum vitae stern tube bearings were used by the U.S. Navy.

Photos courtesy of Bob Shortridge

A simple shed up a gravel drive off a country road in rural Virginia is not where you’d expect to find the world’s largest stockpile of one of the great engineering materials. But find it there you will. The material is a tropical hardwood called lignum vitae (LIG-num VYE-tee). And the stockpile is the property and passion of a man named Bob Shortridge.

Shortridge is an expert timber framer — he’s the founder of Dreaming Creek timber frame homes — and for years, ...

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