<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  David</DIV> <DIV>  By the way the primary  advantage to gluing up thinner= pieces of tight & well aged maple is to Make them wide enough for caps  & thereby  utilize the  most excellent maple wood I can find.</DIV> <DIV>   Dale Erwin</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2> <DIV>Planning  can show  up the grain when I'm planning to final= bridge height But I stop short of the final height  & do the fina= l planning /smoothing of the bridge top with a very sharp flat scraper = held either by hand or in a new slick Veritas set up Fenton Murray turned = me on to recently. You can smooth & plane a  nats eye brows with thi= s. The veritas holds the flat scraper in a nice arch & the sharpener real= ly puts a beautiful hook on it.</DIV> <DIV>  Dale Erwin</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>