<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Ron, please don&#39;t edit and quote my comment out of context. (Let&#39;s leave that to the politicians!) I thought I&#39;d made it clear that the cutting surface is the vinyl baseboard molding ON TOP of the plate glass -- not the glass itself! (If I failed in this regard, I apologize.) I mentioned it because the wide length of this stuff is helpful,<br />and it&#39;s a tiny fraction of the cost of the commercially available cutting surfaces.<br />     Now, if you can bear to "play nice", and please specify, with facts, why this stuff is bad as a cutting surface, and what I should use instead, kindly elucidate.<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            Ron Nossaman &lt;rnossaman@cox.net&gt;;                            <br>
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                            Re: [pianotech] Lowering the stack on a Steinway                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On 10/10/2012 8:54 AM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:<BR>&gt; I have an extremely thick piece of plate glass on a flat as I can<BR>&gt; make it workbench (a granite slab would be even better ) for various<BR>&gt; tasks.&gt;<BR>--------------------------------------------------------<BR>&gt; ( I generally use this for cutting felt strips on,<BR><BR>This puts you permanently on my "never loan this person an edged tool of any sort" list, with most everyone else I know.<BR><BR>Ron N<BR></td>
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