From: Ed Wischmeyer
Date: 11/4/2003 6:57 AM Central Standard Time

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FWIW, the poplar one weighed 1.25 pounds. The nearly-identical oak one
weighed a half-pound more... a 40% weight penalty.

I'd have thought you'd use spruce, it's even more poplar... :-)

Ed Wischmeyer

Ed, you know a bunch of people are going to birch about your comment.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired