Best wood to use for spoil board

[AndyP (Badger)]

I received a few ideas in this thread.

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MDF or Plywood or something else? I’ve changed my wasteboard for the matchfit system using Morgans files. it’s a brilliant concept and this thread is a great source of people’s experiences. I’ve made my own dovetail sliders with various thread lengths and fixings. I made my wasteboard with MDF and I find it structurally unstable. I understand that the “pinching” action of the system negates tearing the dovetail pieces out of the track but I quickky discovered cases where the “pinching” acti…