[pianotech] Sitka spruce-Stwy B

William Monroe bill at a440piano.net
Tue Mar 17 19:40:58 PDT 2009


Hey Dale,

Nice looking board.  I'll be curious to hear it.

What do you have on your bridge caps?  They look darker on top than in the
notches, but obviously not DAG.

William R. Monroe


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:57 PM, <erwinspiano at aol.com> wrote:

>  Hi
> *  Last week there was a discussion about spruce quality,color,grain count
> etc. A few asked off list to see one of the panels I referred to. The one
> pictured was just glued in yesterday & has it's final gloss coats of lacquer
> applied. Rub out Manana. This board was made from some to the really wide
> reddish planks with a grain count of roughly 22 grains an inch. The two
> planks in the middle are 9 & 11 inches wide make up at least half the entire
> panel.
>  It's much prettier now that is under clear gloss lacquer. The reddish
> color is diminished. The grain really pops and hopefully the tone will as
> well. I'll post the other requested pics of the other panels glued up
> recently. My Batteries died in the cameras.  There always doing that.
>  Dale*
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William R. Monroe, RPT
A440-William R. Monroe Piano Services, Inc.
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