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274870 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2021‑12‑04 Re: Wooden Soap Dish?
I would go with lignum vitae for this application.  Good colours, very 
fine-grained, full of naturally-occurring oil. Not easy to work, but 
sharp tools produce very fine surfaces. My second choice would be olive.

FWIW
Don

On 2021-12-03 6:38 p.m., John Leyden wrote:
> GG’s,
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> Darling Daughter has requested that a wooden soap dish be found in her
stocking this holiday season.
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> My gut reaction is…yuck!
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> Regardless of wood species used, I can’t imagine something more easily
inclined to slime and rot.
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> Please correct me if I am wrong. I’ll do anything for this young lady as
doubtless you would for one of your own. But wood in the tub? Really?
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> Where do these millennials get such ideas?
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