The other disadvantage of using Delignit is that your piano will end up looking like a Samick! Terry Farrell On Apr 7, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > jimialeggio wrote: >> I think it would be useful to try and determine if there is any >> advantage of the various maple epoxy laminations over a delignit >> cap. >> Do we have any data on this? > > Not directly, but Delignit ought to make a first rate cap. The stuff > sold by Delignit for bridge capping is, I think, not hard and dense > enough. It's a little over 70% the density of the pinblock stock, > and noticeably less hard. The only real benefits I see to epoxy/ > veneer laminations over Delignit pinblock stock are that it looks > less like plywood because of the grain direction of the laminations, > and it's less abrasive to edged tools when you notch. > > If you want to try a pinblock grade Delignit cap, I have 9mm material. > Ron N
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