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In a message dated 98-07-01 00:27:56 EDT, you write:
> "Is this (fingure jointed 2x's) another example of something
> the carpenters of
> yesterday would have used if it had been available? If so,
> why?"
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> Of course they would have used them
> They are straighter & stronger w/out knots.
> Not that these guys were necessarily good wood lot managers
> [ I suspect our fore-fathers of a lot of slash & burn
> agricultural practices]
> the short wood doesn't end up in the kindling/pulp pile.
The short wood between the knots in the log *was* used in the old (and not so
old) days. Keg and bucket staves were sawn from this short wood through the
19th and mid-20th cen. Also, even I recall getting Velveta cheese in little
wooden boxes as late as the 1950s and then seeing an old film in school
showing a woodworking factory making those same little cheese boxes from log
to store shelf. My dad's shop still has about 60 of those cheese boxes use as
nail storage bins.
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