Bridge cap materials

[Bill Ballard]

At 8:38 AM -0400 10/12/02, Farrell wrote:
>How does laminating maple at whatever angle affect its hardness - 
>i.e. how is this better than solid quarter sawn stock?

It doesn't. The cross-laminating simply reduces the chance of the 
wood splitting along the grain. Any "wheat cracks" would only 
penetrate one lamination deep.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"Round here we don't talk unless we can improve on the silence."
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