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Pat B:
If you can make one of the uprights on your spine tester adjustable you can do it. It's the same with hardwood shoot arrows, like sourwood...or red osier. ;)

stringstretcher:
"Same here, I let it dry,then sort it by spine before I do anything to it. "
 
 
 
here is one of the quotes that I saw,

Hillbilly:
Charlie, that was probably me that said that. What I meant was that I sort it by "hand-spining" to get in the ballpark. If you fool with cane a lot, you can judge the stiffness pretty well by flexing it in your hands. That'll get your cane sorted into batches that are reasonably close, within a five-ten pounds of each other, anyway. If you want to put them on a spine tester to get them exact, you'll do that after you get the canes straightened and finished out. 

stringstretcher:
Thanks Hillbilly.  I thought it was you that has said it and thought you had some majic in the picking fingers of yours.....lol.  By the way, I had a quitar in my hands yesterday for the first time in over 32 years.......that was one set of picking you definately are glad you missed.......lol

Mechslasher:
i sort my cane by weight after drying, mostly in 25-50gr sets.  then after straightening, i'll have roughly matched sets.  similar densities usually lead to similar spine wieghts.

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