What are the advantages or disadvantages of using milled lumber as opposed to a natural branch?
The difference is mainly aesthetic. There is something to be said for having a wand made of the branch of a still-living tree and lumber is, of course, milled from trees that have been cut down. For some, this might not be desireable, but I look at it this way: trees are sacrificed for all sorts of building and craft projects carried out by humans; what better way to make this sacrifice worthwhile than to create a wand out of some of that wood, thereby preserving some of the dryad spirit of the wood and giving it new life as a magical instrument? Beyond that philosophical question, there are many aesthetic differences. Milled lumber often has a more pronounced grain with more distance between the growth rings.
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