damper "grain"

[John R Fortiner]

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On Fri, 25 May 2001 00:19:02 EDT JIMRPT@AOL.COM writes:
> 
> In a message dated 5/24/2001 11:48:22 PM, you wrote:
> 
> <<I have noticed that APSCO advertises their damper felt for grands
> as being "horizontally" cut, while Schaff advertises theirs as
> "vertical".  What is the real difference and what are the pro's and 
> cons
> of each?
> 
> Waiting to learn something else I didn't know.
> >>
> Geez John this is an easy one!  "horizontally cut" damper felt comes 
> from 
> Sheep who live in the mountains....by the time they get to the 
> shearing pens 
> they are so tired from having to run uphill that they lay down to be 
> 
> sheared...But, how are the sheep sheared that run downhill into a
valley to be sheared...vertically or horizontally :-)whereas "vertical
cut" damper felt comes from realatively 
> lazy 
> flatland sheep who don't ever have to lie down to rest and are 
> sheared 
> standing up. :-)Really lazy ones would lay down anyway.  Right back to
"horizontally cut" again... :-)
> 
> or another explanation is that "horizontal" felt is layered/cut 
> parallel with 
> the strings and "vertical" cut is cut /layered perpendicular to the 
> strings. 
> "Vertical" cut felts 'tend' to be of a firmer quality than does 
> "horizontal" 
> felt.....or have I got that backwards? :-)Don't ask me - that is why I
asked the question in the first place.

John R. Fortiner
Billings, MT.
> Jim Bryant (FL)
> 
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