At 08:27 -0600 18/02/2011, Tom Driscoll wrote: >I just got back from the big store with the orange sign and they had >3/4" poplar boards that would work. The Baltic or it's cousins >would be a great choice but availability, price and the size of the >stuff to move and cut come into play. I would use tulipwood (Am. 'poplar') as well. The birch ply we have here is certainly of good quality and extremely well stuck together but there is one very good reason why birch is not a good choice and that is that the furniture beetle will turn it to powder in a very short time. I think this is the reason why it is so rarely encountered in pianos in Europe, whereas tulipwood was used in vast quantities in the old days. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera> JD
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