>I was asking about "AGEING" and was all along... >which you now declare to be a whole'nother debate..... <Ric scratching his head >wondering which planet he is on now> For acoustic performance, and any other load response function, aging in wood isn't a linear function of the passage of time. It's a function of the combination of original materials choice, grain orientation, loading characteristics, temperature fluctuations and limits, humidity fluctuations and limits, and time. How many days or years a piece of wood has been asked to do a specific job is relatively meaningless without the rest of the information pertaining specifically to that job. >> > But as I said at the outset... show me the science, the research data that >> supports >> > your statements regarding why new wood is "better" then old. "The Encyclopedia of Wood", reprint of "Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material", Sterling Publishing Co. "Understanding Wood", R. Bruce Hoadly, The Taunton Press >God... you guys are gonna get me to believe in tinkerbells after all if this >keeps up. grin... It's the "tinkerbells" we're trying to do away with. Ron N
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