Steinway bridge laminations - the saga continues

[John Delacour]

At 08:03 19/09/01 -0400, Farrell wrote:

>...all the little speckles (wood rays) that you see in maple. (Do you have 
>any other handy hard maple grain orientation ID methods?)

The plane of the flecks (beech, birch or maple) is along the radius, or in 
other words they face along the tangent to the log, towards the saw if the 
wood is cut on the quarter.

JD