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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On 12/20/2012 6:07 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:<BR>> Thanks, Ron.<BR>> And the Knabes I have here seem to have laminated ribs throughout.<BR><BR>Interesting. I haven't seen one like that, just the last three or four ribs in the treble.<BR><BR><BR>> (Though it is very hard to tell, because it is just 2 laminations per<BR>> rib, and the joints are so cleanly made.)<BR><BR>Yep, two laminations, one flat, one lenticular to define a crown. Someone somewhere has pretty much tried everything at some time or another. I always wondered why they did such interesting things with ribs, and such truly dumb things with bridge cap grain angles.<BR>Ron N<BR></td>
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