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by mondocat 965 days ago
It seems there was a conflation of two expectations. The first being a material so hard that bullets just bounced off of it. The second being a material so effective at dispersing energy that bullets could not penetrate it. Kevlar is the well known example of the second category. In the end, the compressed wood seemed to improve a little in both categories, but not much. For reference from the video the same bullet that was stopped by 7 untreated boards of wood only required 3 treated pieces.
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I was disappointed that the 7 untreated boards were not glued together.