Bridge cap materials

[Farrell]

I have four 1/2" thick maple boards from Pianotek (presumably Bolduc?). Nice straight grain, but only 10 to 11 rings per inch. The "quarter sawn" angles range from near 90 degrees to much of it around 70 degrees. So what, use this on bass bridges? Or maybe the bridge body?

Are you being sarcastic regarding the "Sorry about my "are you being sarcastic" remark the other day"? I don't even see that stuff (unless its funny!).

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Erwinspiano@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Bridge cap materials
> > 
> >  Terry Farrell wrote
> > Not having capped 2,000 bridges (yet), I have not seen so much maple. 
> > Please, what range of annular rings/inch are you considering wide grained, 
> > and what is you target range for desirable maple. Thanks.
> > 
> >         Terry
> 
>             Since you asked I went out and measured grains per inch. I was 
> wrong 10 to 12 grains is marginal and still not what I want. 14 t0 20 would 
> be great .I have some left over that has over 20 with fairly straight grain, 
> medullary ray and lots of brown fleck indicative of good quarter sawing. I 
> cut up some old upright pinblock this morning which had about 12 to 15 
> grains. Nice stuff but not vary wide.
>    Sorry about my "are you being sarcastic" remark the other day it's been a 
> stressful week. If you'd like a small sample of tight grain maple  post your 
> address. No charge.
>     I opened a new box of bulduc bridge material this am. It's all going 
> back. Some nice straight grain but only one piece in the 12 grains an inch 
> catagorie. I guess I'm just getting to picky.
> >>>>>>>>>>>Dale Erwin>>>>>>>>>>>
>    
> 
> >   
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <Erwinspiano@aol.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: Bridge cap materials
> > 
> > 
> > > >          Hi Dave
> > > 
> > >                Thanks for the feedback. Oddly enough his material is what 
> > I'm 
> > > complaining about. I buy a box and half is so wide grained it's unusable. 
> > 
> > > I've also had a little ,not a lot of tuning pin tightness inconsistencies 
> > in 
> > > his blocks. I'm trying to make sure the variable isn't mine. Overall I'm 
> > very 
> > > satisfied with the maple blocks, it's really all I use. I'm currently 
> > trying 
> > > a delignit block for the first time.
> > >          Thanks >Dale Erwin
> > 
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