"...gladly give away as long as you at least pay me to make the panel." And therein lies the rub...... "...panels made up of finger jointed planks." Nope. Never happen. Makes too much sense. Wouldn't the tone leak out at the joints or sumptin'? Besides, it would look ookey..... :-( Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- Bolduc doesn't deal in Sitka like we do. At any rate, it's ridiculous to expect color matching from Sitka, where the wood has as many as a dozen variations that may not even be apparent until the panel is sanded. I might expect a #2 panel to include a greater content of drift from vertical grain (even as much as 30 degrees) as well as some slope and even compression wood here and there. I haven't been brave enough to use this wood in the panels we make; but if it works out, I would sure like to know. I have tons of that stuff heating my home right now that I would gladly give away as long as you at least pay me to make the panel. Better yet, let's learn to make our soundboards from panels made up of finger jointed planks. Mark my words, it's the wave of the future. Jude Reveley, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090311/22fdcd3e/attachment.html>
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