In a message dated 98-06-24 23:01:39 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< I have to admit a certain sense of technical challenge, though-- why
 couldn't we make it look more like "real" wood...I've seen some great
 adhesives for plastic substrates, and many plastic automobile parts are now
 routinely coated with all sorts of specialty coatings... >>

 I think it would be great to make it look like real wood. A question of
technology and market demand acheiving a threshold where an entrepreneur
envisions the profit.

Been reading bio of James Bogardus, NYC/American inventor of cast iron facade
panel systems -- interesting the resistance there was to using cast iron in
facade architecture until he had proven all the naysayers wrong by building a
few buildings.

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