Port Orford Cedar, grafted Pistachio

[oldwave maker]

Drove the sagwagon for the family bike tour of the Oregon coast last week, looking for farwood in all the right places (like the Gold Beach area), and found some figured quartersawn PO cedar 2x8 and some bass fretboard size grafted pistachio. While I need more instrument wood like a fish needs a bicycle, my lovely wife thought it would eventually make an aromatic addition to the maple/spruce funeral pyre when she finds me face down at the bench, passed on from the fun fumes. Anybody ever try pistachio for fretboards? was thinking graft at the 12th fret.......

[Spruce]

Anybody ever try pistachio for fretboards? was thinking graft at the 12th fret.......

Great idea...and cool wood.
Is that log pile the POC?

[oldwave maker]

Bruce- all the logpiles were poc, quartered with a wood mizer on a long track, structurally fine for viking funeral barges. Matt Metcalf 541 698-6532. down the road several miles, Irwin Wright 541 247-6591 had a pallet of pistacio 1x4x32 at $7 a board. Flew home southwest with 49 pound suitcases, wood and camping gear, my pillow still smells like that poc woodyard!

[tree]

If the graft comment was serious (I probably misinterpreted) I think I remember from tree biology that they are structurally a point of potential weakness (in living trees, anyway). Carry on with the awesome wood pics.

[Spruce]

If the graft comment was serious (I probably misinterpreted) I think I remember from tree biology that they are structurally a point of potential weakness (in living trees, anyway).

A Taylor, with a grafted walnut back...

[Inklings]

That is really, really beautiful. Great work, great wood!

[John Adrihan]

That is just insanely cool.