Park students Van and Nolan achieve a historic victory at the model bridge contest, leading their school to a first-ever ...

THERE WAS BALSA ... model airplane manufacturers in the U.S., producing over 80 model kits and 14 glider types, all from their original Wakefield facility. Made from lightweight balsa wood ...

MOSCOW — Tiny soldier figurines play fifes and drums in front of a model of Colonial Williamsburg ... built his own house. The buildings are made mostly from wood, with the bricks made from ...

They can be used for small model building projects to apply glue. I remember using picks to glue strips of balsa wood into model airplanes (Are there still model airplanes?) but I was always kind ...

Soon after, Guillow designed a line of balsa flying model construction kits—scale models built from a wood frame ... company expanded to a more suitable building nearby. For years, Guillow ...

In the 2012 reconstruction of this 1947 adventure, six amateur Scandinavian sailors—five of whom are tall, slim and valiant—build a replica ... seeps through the balsa timbers of the Kon ...

HIGH QUALITY BLOCK - The basswood carving blocks are made of premium quality basswood, an ideal wood for many woodcarvers, which is soft, fine, even texture and pale color, make it easy to work with.

The team's invention uses a newly developed composite material based on porous, lightweight balsa wood shaped into small ... use in constructing more durable buildings.

Imagine cutting a sheet of wood with nothing more than a utility knife. That's balsa for you. You may remember this ultralight-weight wood from model plane kits in childhood. Bring this material out ...