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In a message dated 10/11/2002 1:55:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
pianobuilders@olynet.com
Del
I suppose falconwood to have essentially the same non-desireable
characteristics as the delignit? Is the cap making you employ time
consumning > How many laminations? Never mind I can guess but the hardness
issue remains,I mean it's still maple.
Dale
> We've given up on what passes for maple bridge cap stock these days. We now
> use Delignit or a maple laminate we make up ourselves in the shop. I like
> the physical characteristics of Delignit--at least for bridge caps--though
> I don't like how it looks. The use a resorcinol resin which leaves a dark
> reddish brown glue line. Hence, our own maple laminate which we glue up
> using MPA II or Titebond II for an almost invisible glueline.
>
> Delignit is very difficult to notch by hand. A true exercise in
> self-mutilation! Hence our air-powered bridge notching machine.
>
> Del
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