Without being lower in price, that wood seems to be an almost useless replacement.
Sounds like a military blockade of Balsa from Ecuador to China is in order.
I like my Balsa the same way as my Gasoline, a CHEAP plentiful supply and don't care how that is achieved, by hook or by crook.

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