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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:04:58 -0400, hk wrote:

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:44:15 -0400, hk wrote:

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:33:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Aug 18, 5:47 pm, hk wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:15:32 -0500, Vic Smith
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:02:11 -0400, hk wrote:
Which goes to show how subjective taste is. I've never liked teak on a
boat. On the exterior, I always preferred mahogany, the real stuff, not
the crap that is sold most often these days as mahogany. In a cabin, I
pretty cherry or oak.
After maintaining hardwoods for many years, when I see a beautifully
finished grain I think.......can I get this in a non-scratch plastic?
Yep, taste is subjective, and changing.
That was wrong actually. I wouldn't get a wood grain in plastic.
I like "light" which might be because my eyes aren't as good as they
once were. Besides the maintenance issues, dark woods don't
lend themselves to bright atmospheres, which is my preference now.
Think formica. Or whatever.
--Vic
Formica is just a plasticized coating over paper.
Bull****.
The paper is soaked with resins, therefore paper is never in contact
with anything.
Also, you are lumping Formica with all laminates, idiot.
The fact that the paper in formica absorbs moisture and begins to
smell over time in a marine environment is well known. It's a smell
that you cannot get rid of unless you get rid of the formica.

While I knew the composition of Formica previously, I got some of the
quotes regarding the product (the part about paper) right off the
Formica site. In fact, I thought I put those quotes in quotes and
mentioned the Formica site. I'm not sure what it is loogy is trying to
argue, but I had that same problem with most of his posts, when I
bothered to read them. The boy is drain-bamaged.

One of my "hobbies" is building guitars. For a while in the 80's, it
was all the rage to use phenolic for fretboards. It looked like ebony,
was very strong and stable, and was touted as the "lifetime fretboard
material". It was likewise, made from paper and resin, but used
phenolic resin, and was much thicker than formica countertops. The
color was not just on the surface, either.

The phone company used a lot of phenolic laminate for switch gear.

Is that the stuff that used to be called "bakelite"?

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