Bridge cap materials

[gordon stelter]

Would impregnating the wood with epoxy solve all this?
It certainly would pevent moisture from getting into
it in the future, and one could make the epoxy quite
thin by a little lacquer thinner, or perhaps just a
little warmth to insure that the wood absorbed  it
well.
     Thump
--- Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/14/2002 7:15:54 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Subj:Re: Bridge cap materials 
> > Date:10/14/2002 7:15:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time
> > From:<A
>
HREF="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</A>
> > Reply-to:<A
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HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
> > To:<A
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> > Sent from the Internet 
> > 
> > 
> >  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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