ehy what is happening here? nobody told me anything
just to give you some insight.
There are mainly 3 kinds of wood: common (like pine and those used in constructions), quality (like cherry), fine (like mahogany and generally woods used for musical instruments).
Leave out common/cheap woods. With quality woods the cost of the material is hardly an issue. With $10 of wood I can probably mill 20 spacebars.
The cost is in:
- setup time (human)
- machine time
- post-processing (human again, sanding and varnishing)
- end mills (the cutters, they are expensive)
- waste material (wood is unpredictable, you might have a knot or a crack and you end up wasting quite some material)
The best wood I tried so far is Cherry. Chestnut wood is also nice but a bit harder and veins are bigger (=not good for very small items). I would like to try rose, pear and olive woods as well.
If you want a fine wood like ebony or mahogany (or even finer) then the cost of material impacts on the final cost of the piece.
Lastly, if there's really interest in such a thing, having the spacebar is multiple profiles is hardly an issue. OEM/Cherry/DCS are very similar. DSA is super easy to design. Same as SA. That being said I have no clue how a 1.25 x 6.25 spacebar is