Re: Large, Long Holes in Wood...

Joe AutoDrill wrote:
>>I don't know what the application is but wouldn't it be easier to rip
>>it on a bandsaw mill, core box bit the insides and glue it back
>>together?
> 
> 
> That is what we said...  But I guess they need it in one piece for some 
> reason.  All I could picture was high end sail masts for sailboats with
an 
> aluminum mast hidden inside...  And customers who were too picky to
accept a 
> "split down the middle" wood look...
> 
> ....But God only knows what they will actually be using the wood "tubes"
for 
> after they are done...
I'd want to have some idea what the wood tube is being used for.  If no 
explanation is forthcoming, it might be for smuggling . . .

It would explain the requirement for boring it without splitting. 
Presumably the end will be plugged with a plug cut from a slice taken 
off before boring commenced to match the rings.  For it to be worthwile, 
the payload must be high value so probably drugs or worse.  If you think 
I'm being paranoid, read 
http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/budget/2003-2004/finland.pdf
(cigarette smuggling in Finland using hollow spuce logs)

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