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[Ron Lindquist]

At 01:14 PM 1/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Charles,
>
>A finger joint is nothing peculiar to piano work.  You might find them most
>anywhere woodworking happens.
>
>Do this...
>
>Take your two hands and lay them down on the desktop in front of you.  Align
>your hands so that your fingers are pointed towards each other.  Spread your
>fingers apart so that about the width of a finger is between each of the
>fingers of each hand.  While keeping your hands flat on the desktop, move
>your hands so as to mesh your two hands together, putting the fingers of one
>hand in the spaces between the fingers of the other hand.
>
>Now, make the mental leap...  Imagine that your hands are two pieces of wood
>being joined together.  You can imagine, and rightly so, that this would be
>a very strong joint with lots of glue surface if done properly.
>
>That's a finger joint.
>
>Honestly, I don't get terribly excited about finger joints in a soundboard
>panel, although I see nothing wrong with it.  A lot of the cracking I've
>seen in soundboards is not at the glue joints.  I'd venture to say that so
>long as there's a good glue joint between the boards of a panel, it'll
>likely crack elsewhere.  (Just an opinion.)
>
>Brian Trout
>Quarryville, PA
>btrout@desupernet.net