Stealth Pilot wrote in message . ..


that is pretty well my take on it as well. I was wondering whether I'd
missed something in the reading along the way.

oh well bugger the waste. we saw for quarter grain.
the stuff grows on trees anyway :-)

If you have tight grained flatsawn lumber you can rip it into
narrow strips, rotate the strips 90 degrees and glue them to
make vertically-grained glue-laminations.

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