In article .com,
"robo hippy" wrote:

When are you coming? I live in Eugene, and have some sources, and of
course,we have a local club, and more sources. Madrone, quoting a
friend," that stuff starts to split when you fire up the chainsaw."

After I turned some green Madrone burl a year or two back, I could hear
the wood drying on my mantle - sounded like a bowl of Rice Krispies.
Amazingly no visible cracks ever developed as I'd turned it very thin
and the surface distorted greatly.

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"Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised
as 100% Americanism." -- Huey P. Long