Driftwood 4 tonewood?

[Forrest Mandolins]

I live on an island. I look closely at wood. I make musical instruments. Lately I have been finding oldgrowth CVG yellow cedar, western red cedar, sitka spruce, and figured bigleaf maple( quilted and flamed) driftwood on the beach. I'm thinking about making a mandolin from some of this wood. Anyone here have experience using driftwood?

[sunburst]

Bruce (Spruce) will probably show up in this thread eventually. He also lives on an island, and I'm pretty sure he has harvested spruce and/or cedar from the beach.

[steve V. johnson]

That sounds exciting! I'll be watching...

Thanks!

stv

[Forrest Mandolins]

Spruce lives a few nautical miles up(north) the ditch from me.

[Spruce]

Hi Blaine....

Yeah, I've cut up quite a few driftwood logs....

Spruce, yellow cedar, WR Cedar, Doug Fir, Port Orford Cedar, etc. etc....

I love cutting up driftwood, mainly 'cause it's so damn fun hanging on the beach and cutting up wood....

And it's usually really easy to see if the log is a straight-splitter, because the sun has usually checked the log so you can see the split....

Here's me about 25 years ago cutting up a nice Sitka log that's sitting on about 25,000 oysters....
"OK, got the chainsaw, froe, and cocktail sauce....." # # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

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[KNP String Band Mando]

Awesome!

[martinedwards]

free wood?

can't be bad, can it?

even better than my dumpster diving!!