"Bobsprit" wrote in message

| What a putz. A knife would find bad rot. She only said they "might" be
rotted
| and their age was good enough reason to make the change. You've failed to
make
| a single valid point.

No it won't Bob.... not in a month of Sundays. Not in end grain and there is
now way in hell your concrete queen can tell me wood will rot from the
inside out! You want to know why Bob?? I'll tell you why a knife is not
used to check for rot... the blade slices the grain and will give you little
if any feed back as to the density or uniformity of the wood. A rounded
point pressed into the wood will not only give viable density but also show
the strength of the wood grain. When sounding strakes you would also listen
for the sound it makes on impact.

Once more you've proved how little you can absorb and how idiotic you can be
when it comes to advise you seek and yet refuse to believe.

| As usual.

Exactly!

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