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quarter-sawn and maple
The Steinway Hexigrip Wrestplank pinblock, patented in 1963, is made from seven thick, quarter-sawn maple planks whose grain is oriented radially for evenly distributed end-grain exposure to the tuning pins.
* Eric Johnson: highly contoured two-piece select alder body finished in a " Thinskin Nitro " lacquer, one-piece quarter-sawn maple neck with a V-shaped profile, 12 " fingerboard radius and 21 polished frets, Fender / Gotoh staggered vintage-style machine heads eliminating the need for a string tree and three special-design custom-wound single-coil pickups with countersunk mounting screws.

quarter-sawn and are
Planks of wood are said to be quarter-sawn when the growth rings are more or less at right angles to the thickness.
Steinway soundboards are made of close-grained, quarter-sawn Sitka spruce from British Columbia and Alaska.

quarter-sawn and on
In the decades between, carefully matched quarter-sawn veneers sawn from the same piece of timber were arranged symmetrically on case pieces and contrasted with gilt-bronze mounts.

quarter-sawn and with
* Clear Vertical Grain, quarter-sawn wood, with no knots

quarter-sawn and stability
When the dimensional stability of the wood is paramount, quarter-sawn lumber is preferred because its grain pattern is consistent and thus reacts less to humidity.

quarter-sawn and .
Wide, quarter-sawn boards of oak have been prized since the Middle Ages for use in interior paneling of prestigious buildings such as the debating chamber of the House of Commons in London, and in the construction of fine furniture.
When quarter-sawn the timber has a distinctive and highly decorative appearance of dark reddish-brown flecks against a lighter background and is known as Lacewood.
A ' wainscot ' was therefore a board of riven ( and later quarter-sawn ) oak, and wainscotting was the panelling made from it.

maple and parts
The very southernmost parts of the taiga may have trees such as oak, maple, elm, and tilia scattered among the conifers, and there is usually a gradual transition into a temperate mixed forest, such as the Eastern forest-boreal transition of eastern Canada.
Steinway parts for both factories come from the same places: Canadian maple is used for the rim, and the soundboards are made from Sitka spruce from Alaska.
" Other vegetation that makes its home in other parts of the bay are wild rice, various trees like the red maple and bald cypress, and spartina grass and phragmites.
In many parts of the eastern U. S., the large rounded buds of the silver maple are one of the primary food sources for squirrels during the spring, after many acorns and nuts have sprouted and the squirrels ' food is scarce.
In some parts of eastern North America, particularly near urbanized areas, the sugar maple is being displaced by the Norway maple.
:( Tierced ( divided into three parts ) in fess, first azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or ; second gules, a lion passant guardant of the second, armed and langued of the first ; third, of the second, a sprig of three sugar maple leaves vert, nerved of the field.
Eastern towhee density was negatively associated with plants of the moister parts of this study area, such as black tupelo ( Nyssa sylvatica, p < 0. 006 ), red maple ( p < 0. 001 ), and witch hazel ( p < 0. 03 ).
* Yngwie Malmsteen: select alder body with a C-shaped maple neck, scalloped rosewood or maple fingerboard, 21 super-sized Jim Dunlop 6000 frets, large headstock with Bullet truss-rod and brass nut, Seymour Duncan YJM Fury single-coil pickups with 3-way switching, 3-ply W / B / W pickguard, aged plastic parts and American Vintage hardware.
… solid maple concave surfaces were installed on the side walls ( upper and lower tiers ) and suspended from the ceiling of the stage to help focus sound from different parts of the stage evenly towards both the audience and towards the performers themselves.
Also, maple festival takes place around several streets and parts of the city.

maple and are
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).
Soil chemistry can be dramatically changed when base cations, such as calcium and magnesium, are leached by acid rain thereby affecting sensitive species, such as sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ).
Beavers are herbivores, and prefer the wood of quaking aspen, cottonwood, willow, alder, birch, maple and cherry trees.
All have three-sided bodies, spruce or fir tops, backs made of three to nine wooden sections ( usually maple ), and they are typically strung with three strings.
The materials most often used in double-bass construction are maple ( back, neck, ribs ), spruce ( top ), and ebony ( fingerboard, tailpiece ).
Fretboards are most commonly made of rosewood, ebony, maple, and sometimes manufactured using composite materials such as HPL or resin.
Hammers are usually made of wood ( most likely hard woods such as maple, cherry, padauk, oak, walnut, or any other hard wood ), but can also be made from any material, including metal and plastic.
The bodies of the gutiars are made up maple, the neck has a set-in construction type, and features wood control knobs and hand rolled frets.
Most of the forests around the lake are deciduous forests dominated by trees including maple, oak, beech, ash and basswood.
Three species of maple trees are predominantly used to produce maple syrup: the sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ), the black maple ( A. nigrum ), and the red maple ( A. rubrum ), because of the high sugar content ( roughly two to five percent ) in the sap of these species.
A few other ( but not all ) species of maple ( Acer ) are also sometimes used as sources of sap for producing maple syrup, including the box elder or Manitoba maple ( Acer negundo ), the silver maple ( A. sacharinum ), and the bigleaf maple ( A. macrophyllum ).
There are no authenticated accounts of how maple syrup production and consumption began, but various legends exist ; one of the most popular involves maple sap being used in place of water to cook venison served to a chief.
It is not yet known exactly which compounds are primarily responsible for maple syrup's distinctive flavour.
Scientists have found that maple syrup's natural phenols – potentially beneficial antioxidant compounds – inhibit two carbohydrate-hydrolyzing enzymes that are relevant to type 2 diabetes.

maple and mounted
In the 1860s and 1870s J. Symons of Cowes kept up the good work, producing local views much larger than postcard size, mounted in glazed oak or maple frames and signed with the artist's signature on the reverse.
* Gong Drum-A large single-headed 10-ply maple drum with a 21 " or 23 " diameter mounted on a stand and intended to be struck with a drumstick.

maple and on
To solve the problem of the wheat grains spilling on the floor and getting underfoot, a ball of maple syrup boiled to candy consistency was invented to hold the grains.
* PF – Performer series 1977 – 82 with a pair of Super 1970s humbuckers mahogany body and maple neck with rosewood fingerboard – Pf 100, bolt on neck ; PF 200 bolt on neck with curved maple top ; PF 300 with set neck, curved maple top and tri sound ; PF 400 as 300 but with carved maple cap.
The maple sap was concentrated either by dropping hot cooking stones into the buckets or by leaving them exposed to the cold temperatures overnight and disposing of the layer of ice that formed on top.
Around this time, cane sugar replaced maple sugar as the dominant sweetener in the US ; as a result, producers focused marketing efforts on maple syrup.
The classification of maple syrup in the US depends ultimately on its translucence.
In Canada, syrup must have a density of 66 ° on the Brix scale to be marketed as maple syrup.
A moose's diet often depends on its location, but they seem to prefer the new growths from deciduous trees such as white birch, trembling aspen and striped maple, among many others.
The heraldic badge, referred to by the CHA as the mark of the Prime Ministership of Canada, consists of four red maple leaves joined at the stem on a white field (" Argent four maple leaves conjoined in cross at the stem Gules "); the augmentation has, so far, been granted either as a canton sinister or centred in the chief.
The sheltered location of the city, facing south with hills to the north, mountains to the east and mountainous islands to the west, contributes to Molde's climate and unusually rich plant life, especially among species naturally growing on far lower latitudes, like maple, chestnut, oak, tilia ( lime or linden ), beech, yew, and others.
Flora and fauna of the region include the normal ecological succession from lowland big leaf maple and western red cedar through Garry oak on up through fire-dependent species such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir, as well as grand fir, silver fir and other species common to Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Muir was said to have been inspired to write this song by a large maple tree which stood on his street in front the Maple Cottage, a house at Memory Lane and Laing Street in Toronto.
In Hurst's novel, Bea Chipley is a quiet, mousey, Atlantic City teenage girl whose mother passes away, leaving her to keep house for her father ( Mr. Chipley ) and Benjamin Pullman, a boarder who peddles ketchup and relish on the boardwalk and sells maple syrup door-to-door on the side.

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