On Tue, 18 May 1999 21:17:26 EDT JIMRPT@AOL.COM writes: > >In a message dated 5/18/1999 4:00:17 PM, you wrote: > ><<"my hand pushed the sanding block right into the rim - no wood >present >under the veneer - thanks to those little buggers. IOW those things >CAN be >really >destructive. btw the instrument had been brought here from >*Florida*.">> > >Nah those probably aren't/weren't "termites" they probably were >"Powder Post >beetles". We breed them by crossing fleas from swamp cats and Formosan > >termites :-) A hall mark of PPB infestation is "cored out" wood and >round >"droppings". Usually termites do not core out wood ... >Jim Bryant (FL) OK, OK, OK, so I'm not an expert on termites - what do you expect from someone who lives in Montana?? :-))) I do know of a S&S L that does have a lot of body filler in it, however. I also have a feeling that the many coats of lacquer that piano received probably "cooked" the termite's or PPB's little minds. btw. What else do you cross breed down there? :-) John Fortiner Billings, MT. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
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