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RE: Wood Dashboards

To: "'Stanton, John'" <JStanton@newsamerica.com>
Subject: RE: Wood Dashboards
From: "Vandergraaf, Chuck" <vandergraaft@aecl.ca>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:05:59 -0400
Sure, but be sure that you mark it appropriately!  Canada Customs and/or
Canada Post might become suspicious!

TTV

> ----------
> From:         Stanton, John[SMTP:JStanton@newsamerica.com]
> Sent:         Wednesday, April 14, 1999 10:47 AM
> To:   Vandergraaf, Chuck; 'deemi@juno.com'
> Cc:   nogera@prodigy.net; morgans@autox.team.net;
> gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com
> Subject:      RE: Wood Dashboards
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> Can we send sample saw dust for you to sniff?
> 
> JJS
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Vandergraaf, Chuck [SMTP:vandergraaft@aecl.ca]
> > Sent:       Wednesday, April 14, 1999 11:29 AM
> > To: 'deemi@juno.com'
> > Cc: nogera@prodigy.net; morgans@autox.team.net;
> > gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com
> > Subject:    RE: Wood Dashboards
> > 
> > Bob,
> > 
> > You can give it the "taste test."  From the back of the dashboard, file
> > out
> > small bits of the wood.  If it is walnut, it will taste like a piece of
> a
> > walnut shell (I'm not kidding).
> > 
> > Mahogany, I recall, is more open grained than walnut.  Cheaper, too!
> > 
> > I have another, foolproof test: I'm highly allergic to walnut sawdust.
> I
> > found this out when I was sanding down the case of a grandfather clock I
> > was
> > building.  Within 10 minutes, my eyes started to water and my nose ran
> > like
> > a tap.  Mahogany doesn't do that to me.
> > 
> > Chuck Vandergraaf
> > '52 +4
> > Pinawa, MB
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > ----------
> > > From:     deemi@juno.com[SMTP:deemi@juno.com]
> > > Sent:     Saturday, April 10, 1999 11:06 AM
> > > To:       gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com
> > > Cc:       Vandergraaf, Chuck; nogera@prodigy.net;
> > morgans@autox.team.net
> > > Subject:  Re: Wood Dashboards
> > > 
> > > My notes have "a polished walnut surround"
> > > 
> > > this was for my +4 Super Sport, 1963 
> > > 
> > > I would really like to know if this is Mahagony or walnut.
> > > 
> > > Bob Bowie in Maine
> > > Mog SS # 5381
> > > 
> > > 
> 

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