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 > HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > > To:<A > HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: http > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
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