Pitsco Education Balsa Wood Strips 1/8 Inch x 1/8 Inch x 36 Inch, Lightweight Unfinished Wood Sticks, Supplies for Engineering Model Bridges, Towers, and Airplanes, Educational Supplies, 50 Pieces

Several reviewers complained about these strips but I had no issues. Bought 3 bundles and they all arrived safe. None were warped, all were 1/8 inch, and they were inexpensive. They are flimsy so it does not take much pressure to break them but that's what I wanted. My middle school students are using adult scissors to cut the strips and build bridges, then we put weight on each bridge until it breaks. These strips were perfect. I'm sure you can buy heavier more sturdy strips but the quality of these 1/8 inch strips was good.

My students used this balsa wood for a project and it worked great! Great value!

great for building things

We used this for a science competition with strict rules and weight resistance. The size is very consistent and, but if you're looking for consistent mass among sticks, and likely more consistent weight resistance and failure patterns, this is not it. We tried to weigh individual sticks and couldn't get repeatable numbers. We had to weigh many of them together to be confident in the weight of all wood we wanted to use. We found that official wood from our society's national site was much more consistent in grain structure and density, where individual sticks had more repeatable masses. We used this is practice wood for our design prototypes before moving to the official wood for the final design. This was very budget friendly for practicing and gaining comfort with a prime path structure design.

The product had no knots in it, and they fit perfectly fine for my project.

Strong, easy to use material

I ordered this twice. The first pack was the denser harder type, perfect for my construction. 3 month later I reordered another pack of 50. The second batch was super light and very very flimsy. In this second pack there are some sticks that are a bit harder but most disintegrate almost immediately.

Ordered these for daughters bridge build competition. Wood quality is good, sticks are much straighter than cheaper versions. Had plenty to make 2 bridges.