<!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 6.00.2900.2523" 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>  <FONT size=4> Terry</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=4> Yes Poplar is well...more popular in the pieces I suggested earlier that were made from it. I agree Poplar is just as good as = bass wood.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=4>   Dale</FONT></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> <DIV><FONT size=3>There is a variety of wood that I have seen in case pa= rts. I think more often than basswood, you will find poplar as a core material - = but I should think poplar would perform quite well indeed in this application = - I think it is a bit harder than basswood, very uniform, but softer than mapl= e so I should not make noise. I just might try poplar next time!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>