<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3243" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>>> I don't know how you would "bend a curve" into a rib except by steaming <BR>>> it and thus straining the structure and I can't imagine anyone going <BR>>> about it that way... SNIP</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>>> JD</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I "bend a curve" into all my ribs by laminating five to seven laminations of Sitka Spruce ranging from about three to five millimeters thick. Several small shops are building ribs in a similar manner.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:001b01c85e93$36983f90$0401a8c0@DESKTOP" align=baseline border=0></DIV></BODY></HTML>