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<A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> November 15, 2003 5:21 =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Plugging blocks</DIV>
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color=#000040> <FONT
size=3> Hey Terry</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 =
size=3> I've only
done one of these & if I were doing it again I'd plug it again. I =
don't
beleive it's possible for me to duplicate all that case =
mortising
without compromising all that original structural integrity , nor do I =
want
to. Besides plugging is fairly painless once you get set up & =
with
good maple plugs feels like, well.... A good maple
block</FONT></DIV>
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Dale</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=3>And =
have you looked
at any of these plugged blocks ten years after? Twenty years? I have. =
That's why
I still duplicate the original. With a little practice it's not really =
all that
big a deal.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080
size=3>Del</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>