On 9/20/2010 6:34 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: >In reasonably high > production it is easier--cheaper--to make maple plywood out of peeled maple > veneer of indeterminate grade and cut out the whole bridge at one time on an > NC machine than to select reasonably high grade solid stock for a bridge > body and cap it. Or to glue up a vertically laminated body, trim it to > height and cap that with whatever. Is it? It strikes me that there's considerably more waste and time in cross plying flat cut laminates, with the trimming to rectangular dimension and then cutting bridges from it, than vertically laminating the same flat cut material into bridges straight up. Ron N
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