<HTML>In a message dated 10/11/2002 1:55:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, pianobuilders@olynet.com         Del     I suppose falconwood to have essentially the same non-desireable characteristics as the delignit?  Is the cap making you employ time consumning > How many laminations? Never mind I can guess but the hardness issue remains,I mean it's still maple.     Dale <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">We've given up on what passes for maple bridge cap stock these days. We now use Delignit or a maple laminate we make up ourselves in the shop. I like the physical characteristics of Delignit--at least for bridge caps--though I don't like how it looks. The use a resorcinol resin which leaves a dark reddish brown glue line. Hence, our own maple laminate which we glue up using MPA II or Titebond II for an almost invisible glueline. Delignit is very difficult to notch by hand. A true exercise in self-mutilation! Hence our air-powered bridge notching machine. Del </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>