Originally Posted by Sitka deer

Feeling it, looking at it and listening to it are three big ones for deciding how good a blank is...
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Don't you just love the "science" of wood? (Those are really objective determinations.)

But I really think the trailer sums it up pretty well, the fact that it also ends with your name notwithstanding, and the pun not intended... perhaps:

Originally Posted by Sitka deer
.....deciding how good a blank is...
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Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.