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- From: sread@kipling.webo.dg.com (Steve Read)
- Subject: Re: To make OAK hard for drumstick.
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- In-Reply-To: u5557908@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au's message of 20 Jan 93 14:27:48 +1100
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:18:40 GMT
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- >>>>> On 20 Jan 93 14:27:48 +1100, u5557908@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au said:
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- r> ... turning Japanese and Amercian OAK into drumstick for my son.
- r> ...a process to harden the oak so that it will give a correct sound.
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- This may be completely off the mark but in a recent article on
- baseball bats a process called boning came up. It seems that baseball
- players used to rub their bats with bones to harden the surface. A
- representative of the Louisville Slugger Co. (a bat manufacturer) was
- quoted to the effect that rubbing the wood with any smooth object (eg
- a bottle, a bone) burnished the surface changing it's properties
- slightly.
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