> On Jul 19, 2020, at 3:46 PM, don schwartz  wrote:
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> An interesting story on salty, shipwreck guitars.
> 
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/greg-fleming-
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labrador/greg-fleming-shipwreck-guitars-1.5652689 <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/greg-fleming-
shipwreck-guitars-1.5652689">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-
labrador/greg-fleming-shipwreck-guitars-1.5652689>
> 
> Don

Don

Pretty cool.  LIke in wood hoarding in general, guitar makers use about anything
they can find.  There is 5,000 year old bog Oak that is near black, some of that
25,000 Australian wood that begins with a “K”, Redwood from railroad snow
tunnels that they are taking down - the famous one is “Tunnel 14 Redwood”,  then
of course sinker wood, everything from the softwood logs out west like Sitka
Spruce that is washed up on shore, to curly Mahogany sunk a hundred years
ago.from Central America.  It all sounds like a guitar.

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and nobody but a luthier would cut those logs into 24” lengths

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Ed Minch