<!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 6.00.2800.1400" 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>In a message dated 7/30/2004 4:10:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes:</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>Short and sweet is cool tho.  But since you ask....  what exactly <BR>happened when you tried these two sorts dried out that much that you <BR>dont find happens with Sitka ?<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> Ric</DIV> <DIV>  Nothing glamorous or entertaining about compression ridges. Know= what I mean? Sitka withstands far more compression IMO before destructi= ng internally. That's why Yamaha & whoever else can get by with it. Stwy etc<BR>  Dale</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>