The only good use of wood is shipping pallets, packing dunnage, Rolls-Royce and Jaguar dashboard veneers!
It’s also the best material for making trees out of.
Damned stuff is never straight, even if it is relatively straight it won’t stay that way, and until CIG makes woodcraft welding rods it will always be a bastard of a thing to stick together!
I use a fine chipboardian piece for doing my horological duties on……