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Hello David,

Thanks for your comments below about goose vs. crow and the mortise shape. I have plastic jacks with the typical rectangular mortise in the tongues. Will goose quill work with these? (Someday I would like to convert to wooden jacks if I can ever afford it.) or do they need to be somehow modified or treated because it is plastic rathervthan wood?



"Crow v Goose

I have been using Canada Goose quills for some years now.  They have 
the advantage that they fit into flat slots, such as are made for 
delrin, whereas crow needs curved slots.  But I am interested to know 
whether flat-slotted jacks have survived from before 1800, or were 
they all curved, indicating that goose was not used?

Another difference is that the goose feathers have fibres in them 
that I dont think are found in crow.  This must have SOME effect."

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