https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/o...core-ios-share
I hope every builder reads this article about the destruction of the Tongass old growth spruce forest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/o...core-ios-share
I hope every builder reads this article about the destruction of the Tongass old growth spruce forest.
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but in the picture of guitars hanging in the finishing booth.... are all those tops flatsawn? I don't see a single piece of anything resembled quartered wood. What an awful waste of these trees.
And I hope Alaskans get their wish when it comes time to recall Gov. Dunleavy. No arts council? Even a guitar of flatsawn wood is better than no music at all.
The only answer is to eliminate the demand for sitka spruce. Which means that we quit building or switch to other materials.
The solution is to use dead-fall and reclaimed Sitka Spruce and not buy from anybody who sells logged trees.
There is absolutely no need to cut down live spruce trees for instruments -- plenty of wood to be reclaimed out there.
Steve
If I remember Bruce from Orcas Island Tonewoods uses only dead falls and no live trees are cut. Has been doing that for decades.
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