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Same here in Belgium. They actually call it carpenters timber. (Freely translated)
It’s too soft and uneven grained even to chop a chisel in. No matter how sharp it just tears out like hell.
Indeed planing it is a horrible experience and I know for a fact that scraping it isn’t working well either. The hard and knotty areas are too interspersed with fast growth wood that sheds off fibres just by looking at it.
The thing that worries me is that so called quality furniture has the same makeup of small blocks randomly glued together. Last I saw a nice coffee table with a top that might just as well have been using those panels. Luckily for the owner it was in fact a hard wood but the appearance was similar.
If that’s the current design flow I certainly don’t want to be a part of it.
Off to the drawing board to design something similar with real wood and real joints.
Diego