Ernie: I certainly concur with your view that the wood won't be saturated
with blood and other "gunk".  Maple is not very permeable, so unless
nearly perpetually soaked in water, it just won't pick up enough with
daily use and wiping off.  
Erv
On Sat, 9 Aug 1997 15:42:17 MST Ernie Fisch ernfisch@p...
writes:
>** Reply to note from p.comino@q... Fri, 08 Aug 1997 16:59:39 
>+1000 (EST)
>
>>   
>> Hang on a tick - this stuff is saturated with dried bloo....  glue, 
>fat,
>> bone, and all sorts of "other" matter.   All the previous data was 
>for
>> "clean" wood - better ask the question again.  
>>   
>
>Not if it was treated right.  It should have been scraped down every 
>night to
>remove all that gunk.  I packaged meat in a pet shop when I was in 
>high school
>(was that the 18th or 19th century?) and I got to do the scraping.  
>Yeah,
>every night. 
>
>Ernie
>I'm not a collector, really. I'm just a user without enough time.
>(used by permission)
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