This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I think this is excellent use of resources that very well would= hit the dump...way to go Dale... David I. Original message From: To: Received: Thu, 12 May 2005 22:58:27 EDT Subject: Recycled Upright 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. 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 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. It was fun Dale Erwin Erwins Pianos Restorations 4721 Parker Rd. Modesto, Ca 95357 209-577-8397 Rebuilt Steinway , Mason &Hamlin Sales www.Erwinspiano.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/93/1f/86/33/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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