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262696 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2017‑07‑19 Re: Winding sticks
On 2017-07-18 6:12 PM, Michael Parrish wrote:
> Well, my one and only attempt at making winding sticks was a disaster.  I had
slightly thin walnut stock to begin with.  When I resawed it into two sticks, it
immediately warped beyond recovery.  I will have to get motivated and try again
one day.

I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me with some mahogany which 
apparently wasn't straight-grained enough...

Don, who finally mostly finished restoring interior doors and spent some 
time today wondering if he should have bought that piece of cherry with 
so much twist in it...

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