<HTML>In a message dated 10/14/2002 7:15:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">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</BLOCKQUOTE>             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>>>>>>>>>>>    <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">  ----- 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</BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>