Thanks, Cheffy, I'll do that. It may be a day or two. He's finding a programming flaw in a server's back-up which happened the same day his PC decided to give him fits. But he said thanks and will be in contact.

Progress report: we spent Saturday looking around for the right varnish (not an easy thing in Boise), and Sunday was spent gluing the top section, wrapping, cleaning, rewrapping. Sunday was the issue of the slight bend. Yesterday was working a cork pattern and begin the sanding.

I know very little about bamboo, but my novice eyes and fingers see a great improvement.

We'll post pictures later.

[This message has been edited by DianeID (edited 03 May 2006).]