Driftwood 4 tonewood?

**Forrest Mandolins** · Apr-22-2008, 5:37pm

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** · Apr-22-2008, 5:50pm

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** · Apr-22-2008, 6:17pm

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

Thanks!

stv

**Forrest Mandolins** · Apr-22-2008, 6:20pm

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

**Spruce** · Apr-22-2008, 9:43pm

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....." # #