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Rod

Another Dave wrote:
wrote:
I have heard (but know nothing about) a technique for seasoning some
timber (yew I think) by immersion in a river bed.

There's a theory that violins made by Stradivarius, Amati etc sound so
good because the wood was seasoned in the (salt) lagoon at Venice.

And there was I thinking it was some interaction between stain, shellac
and varnish. :-)

Actually, that does sound a bit odd as Cremona is not too far from being
the furthest from the sea you can get in Italy.
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Rod