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1K views 10 replies 10 participants last post by  tonyben 
According to Gus, birch is structurally stronger but compresses more than walnut. It's also my understanding that the only reason that there are birch stocks was because at the time, there was a shortage of walnut in some form or another, so the government made an exception and took an inventory of birch stocks as a substitute. My memory is a little shady on this, but that's what I remember reading.

The bedding will wear out faster on a birch.

Tony.
 
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