<DIV>Are you talking about cabinet parts being maple under veneer.Please explain...I can get almost as many freebies as I want.<BR><BR><B><I>Erwinspiano@aol.com</I></B> wrote:
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<DIV><FONT size=3> The boys & I picked up another free 1890s bush& gerts upright the other day. As I posted some time back I occasionally find a cache of maple in these old beauties worth many hundreds of dollars which I use for bridge caps & pinblocks etc. But this one was solid maple. Yes every piece except oddly the back posts which were oak. Dennis & Jacob tore the it down to the skeleton in an hour & half. The back is sitting out front with a free sign on it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3> The sides popped off with a crow bar & that was that. This was a true treasure trove of tight grained maple. Street value , if you could find it probably 3 to 400 dollars. my minimum wage help cost me about 60 bucks in labor. It ws a bargain. Not all is suitable for bridge capping but it is for many other uses</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3> The really tight grain makes the prettiest tenor/treble bridge caps I've ever seen. The smaller narrow pieces I glue up to make pieces wide enough for the treble caps .I reverse the grain orientation which allows to notch with the grain no matter which side I'm starting on. The glue joints are virtually invisible, if that matters & it's pretty in shellac. The tighter, denser totally, quartered wood makes for a treble cap with excellent impedance properties.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3> It was fun</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3> Dale Erwin</FONT>
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