New Baldwin L Advice

[Ron Nossaman]

>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)


Hi Jim, guess what.
That rotary cut maple that I had some time past determined was in those
Schaff pinblocks moved on me. I just went out and got an apparently long
overdue look at the old Schaff block I use as a pinblock drilling platform,
and it appears to be made from flitch cut material, quartered grain. It's
still too thick a lamination, and too torn up by the slicing process to (my
call) be a usable pinblock, but I was apparently 90° wrong on the slice. My
fault, my mistake, and I have no idea how I did that. Guess if I was smart
enough to know why, it wouldn't have happened in the first place. I hate it
when that happens. My apologies for the misinformation. I screwed up, as I
do occasionally. Looks like I'm going to have to watch myself more closely
in the future, unless someone else will take the job.

I'd still try a rotary cut block with 1.5mm or less laminations though.


Ron N