Just curious
Yep.
Beaver board is made of compressed composite wood pulp. Take wet multi-wood pulp, press it into dense sheets. That’s beaver board.
Particle board is made of wood particles, or in some cases larger wood fragments, bonded together with an Urea-Formaldehyde resin.
IIRC, particle board is heavier and significantly stronger. Also more expensive.
There’s also finger-jointed board, which is made of tag ends of real wood (as opposed to pulped wood) cut on a bias in such a way that the jointing between them becomes relatively solid, though weaker than intact wood at that point would be. It’s often used to produce plywood suitable for wallboard and such, although not for flooring or, particularly, for planking with no underpinning.
Is beaver board the same thing as buffalo board then??
In reviewing this, I’m not sure why I led my post off with “Yep.” I beleive I’m losing it.
Beaver board?
What’s that?
I googled, and it appears to be something for making small structures, like model railroads. Is that what it is?