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Offline bushboy

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Re: it don't take much elm!
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2013, 08:22:41 pm »
1-5/8" for 2/3rds of the lenght
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: it don't take much elm!
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2013, 10:06:23 pm »
I have cut a lot of Elm.  Occasionally you can cut an Elm that heat-treating does very little to help it out, it's rare but I have cut some.  Then there is the rare Elm that will chrysal if you even look sideways at it, there again rare but they are out there.
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