If you need to remove a piece of wood that has been put down with mastic, take a single-strand guitar string and attach each end to wooden handles. Insert the string between the wood and the mastic and pull the handles back and forth. The guitar string works like a cheese cutter.
Michael Murphy, Guemes Island, WA
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