Terry wrote: <<"Rotary cut maple for bridge eigh? Like rotary cut maple for the supply-house pinblocks.">> And Ron N. replied: <<"complete with radial separations every 3mm or so as a result of taking too thick a cut, with the (I forget what it's called backing bar that compresses the wood as it's peeled off to minimize this sort of radial checking) not set close enough - just like the cheap supply house pinblock material. In the 9-11 ply pinblock,">> Ron, Terry; What supply houses use "rotary cut" pinblock material on other than many- multiple laminate densewood epoxy/polyester types? I have never run across such and I have used block material from several different sources and several different block types/layers. Let us know which supply houses use these thingees so we can avoid them. Jim Bryant (FL)
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