Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "How Dutch Clog Makers Are Keeping An 850-Year-Old Tradition Alive | Still Standing" video.

  1. 1:01 knowitall interjection: he means "hard wood" (dutch "hardhout"), not the english term "hardwood". the latter refers to all deciduous trees' wood, while "softwood" refers to conifer wood. poplar and willow are soft and light hardwoods, they have a density range equivalent to the range from spruce to loblolly pine, just more homogenous with barely defined growth rings. no softwood is anywhere near as light and soft as balsa, the lightest hardwood (though the densest hardwoods also are unrivaled by any softwoods by a very large margin). it's just that the most commonly used softwoods are mostly softer than most of the commonly used hardwoods. they're ill-conceived terms, really.
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