Klarinet Archive - Posting 000194.txt from 1999/02

From: Jennifer Jones <JJONES@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bore Oil
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:17:00 -0500

Re: Mark Charette's posting on the penetration of oils into instrument bodies.

I'm sure there was no intention to mislead, but the instrument bodies are
generally made of heartwood which is not active in the transport of nutrients
etc. Just to confirm this suspicion, and avoiding further misinformation, I
referred to a basic college level Biology book. It is the outer few layers of
cells that are active in the tree's mechanisms of life. Michael R. Cummings in
the book I referred to says,
"As a woody plant, such as a tree, grows older, the inner rings of
xylem become clogged with metabolic byproducts and no longer transport
water. These clogged cells darken, and form the inner heartwood..."
("Biology Science and Life" 1996)
Any way, this phenomenon makes it quite reasonable that the wook would not be
well penetrated.
I'm being way too technical. My friends regularly nail me on that one. Hope
it did more good than harm.

Signing off, Jennifer

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