On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:41:20 GMT, john carlson wrote:

You must have some pretty strong fingernails. IME, even "soft" maple
is pretty hard. There's no way that I can dig a fingernail into it.

after working with tropicals hard maple seems soft to me. soft maple seems like
fake wood.

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