--- gary may wrote:

>    ...btw, it seems to me that the soul of wood is
> SO irrepressible, and SO durable that it survives
> being ground into sawdust and glued back into MDF.
> The reason people use the stuff, I believe, is that
> it still has many of the qualities of wood in it, in
> spite of some serious insult and lack of respect.
> Plywood, of course, is extremely soulful; ...

Amen, brother!  Plywood manufacturing put food on the
table when I was growing up, and I spent many a
graveyard shift myself helping to make the stuff
during the summers between my years in college.  It
helped pay the bills, and taught me how to put in an
honest day's work.  Plywood to me means jobs, and a
useful product.  The mill workers I knew all took
pride in their work.  Yup, there will always be a soft
spot in my heart for plywood.  Maybe not for fine
furniture, but for many things its hard to beat.  And
I still love the smell of fresh-cut Douglas fir. 

Now which would *you* rather have, a foot locker made
of plywood, or one made of steel?  A storage box of
plywood, or one of plastic?

If it feels like wood, and it smells like wood, then
it *is* wood and is worthy of our respect.

Chuck Taylor (getting down from his soap box somewhere
north of Seattle, where the most common tree by far is
Douglas fir)

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