---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 04:38 PM 10/11/2002 -0400, you wrote: > List > With really good supply's of maple almost extinct I find > it more and more difficult to be happy about the wide grain and fairly > soft stuff I get from my supplier. I'd like to see close grain and a > strong medullary ray that comes from true 1/4 sawn stock but this a rare > occurance. I also find it necessary to drill smaller bridge pin holes to > get a tight fit. I'm finding that whatever the supply house sells for the > appropriate size drill bits to give a less than snug enough fit. I use a > small electric drill to bore with as many of you do so I > truly techniques is not the propblem IMHO. > I'm going to slice up some delignit and test it for notching > ,hardness and pin fit. Does any one have any experience with this > idea (odelignit or falconwood) and or similar to my complaints. Tell me > I ain't the only one, please! > Dale Erwin > I've been using pin block stock for upright caps for many years with great success. I have enough good old maple cap stock for one more cap and a half. Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@attbi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/61/79/2f/e6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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