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I would be genuinely interested how many of these trees are really felled for guitar production, meaning - I suspect boycotting all guitars would make little difference, building and furniture consuming much, much more
Should Guitars be more sustainable? Yes of course. Wood affects tone, but we buy certain woods to chase a tone we sort of heard on a bad recording years ago. Some of the woods that are replacing the traditional ones produce incredible tone and we need to open our minds to at least trying them
That said, I find it hard to believe it's guitars and similar instruments that are responsible for the stripping of the ran forests, it seems to me that furniture etc is a far bigger culprit (certainly in the past) than out little corner of the world.
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Too right, not having enough sustain is horrid
I agree guitars probably only have a tiny impact on the issue, but it is also something that can be easily addressed. Does the world need more guitars made from these woods, surely there are enough in existence already.
Not trying to be a tree hugger. It does amuse me that people in to guitars are so attached to the 50's and 60's era, as if they are the best. I'm a sucker for it too, but if you think objectively how can that be true? Electric guitars had just started. People dont say the same things about anything else. Oh, they had computers right in the 60's. Cars we're much better in the 50's. HD TV, give me a 60's black and white any day. It's this obsession with the belief "they had it right back then" that means guitar makers have to continue using environmentally harming woods to satisfy consumers.
All my electric guitars and my main bass are made from ash, maple, walnut and bubinga. I do have a rosewood acoustic, but it was made nearly 50 years ago and I wouldn’t mind if it was a different wood. I also have a more modern acoustic and another bass with rosewood fingerboards, but it wouldn’t bother me if they were something else.
We need to move away from the idea of ‘tonewoods’ - different woods do sound different, but it’s largely or entirely to do with density and hardness not species, and there are many substitutes which would do the same job and aren’t as endangered. (Or in some cases synthetic and not endangered at all!)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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the industry seems to be pretty full on with Stuff like Taylor’s ebony project. PRS have a planting scheme in South America.
yes it would be nice to think the industry made less impact but of rare woods we are a small cog
Are these okay to use?
Taste shit in soup though.
A lot is known about sound transmission of materials today. Low density and elasticity are the most desirable factors in transmission (speed of sound through material). But no, we'll just have another bit of wood thanks all the same.
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I was under the impression that nowadays, whilst your guitar may be alder or mahogany, it's probably used quite loosely in that it will be from various different species from around the world that fall in those family of woods.
So if you buy a mahogany/rosewood guitar, the woods would be very unlikely to be from Brazil anyway?
Certainly on my budget they won't anyway. I guess we should all check that the wood in our guitars is from sustainable sources.
My 1994 strat is definitely sustainable, because it's that many pieces Fender clearly foraged the forest floor for fallen twigs to make it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I know it's mostly furniture that uses the bulk of rare woods but it wouldn't hurt to set an example by boycotting the use of endangered species.
we absolutely should stop buying ANYTHING new that contains ANY endangered materials,
YES!
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