Rotary Cut Maple; was: New Baldwin L Advice

[Farrell]

I guess I was making an assumption about the supply-house pinblocks. I have
been using some 7-ply pinblock plugs from Web Philips, which were reportedly
cut from "standard supply-house pinblocks". They way these tend to readily
split perpendicular to the long axis let me to assume they were either
rotary cut or at best flat cut. No doubt I may be out in left field.

Regarding plugs, many had provided guidance a while back on where to get a
plug cutter - but I could find none that allowed cutting a plug of pinblock
thickness - all were 1" thick max. Anyone have a source to share for a
high-quality plug cutter for up to 2" long plugs?

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

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Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: Re: New Baldwin L Advice


> 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)
>