Hi Ed---
Shingle sawyers and shake splitters deal in 24" logs, even 16"ones; they call
them 'cakes'; they're usually much bigger around than they are 'long'...
just sayin' yr pal gam in OlyWA/USA
How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing one
cares for none of them!
Jane Austen
On Sunday, July 19, 2020, 01:16:07 PM PDT, Ed Minch wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2020, at 3:46 PM, don schwartz wrote:
>
>
> An interesting story on salty, shipwreck guitars.
>
> 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 <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.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50131045537/in/dateposted-
public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50131045537/in/dateposted-
public/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50131045537/in
/dateposted-public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50131045537/in
/dateposted-public/>
and nobody but a luthier would cut those logs into 24” lengths
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50130818396/in/dateposted-
public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50130818396/in/dateposted-
public/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50130818396/in
/dateposted-public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50130818396/in
/dateposted-public/>
Ed Minch
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