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Originally Posted by banpreso
once the start trek replicator's in place, we can all have 70 year old pre war braz martins!! 
seriously now... spruce has only 6 years left? i saw the article too. the article says they are being sold to japan to build houses. does that mean 50 years later when those houses are torn down and we'll all the sudden have a big batch of ages spruce to work with? haha. seriously.... spruce only has 6 years left? it's like doomsday for guitars... i mean isn't like 90% of the guitars spruce topped?
back to the rainsong... i played one and thought it was really nice. it had a nice sound, very bright in my opinion, but sounded nice and played well. one really has to be in the market for a very very durable guitar to pick one of these up, but i could imagine big markets for these things. |
"Number One, you have the helm, I'm going to the replicator with my book on the history of the acoustic guitar, and I may be there for several hours!"
What I read was that Sitka spruce has about six years left, not all spruce. Being from upstate New York, this alarms me to the point of cancelling the Friday night bonfires so we can save some of this Adirondack red spruce we've been burning by the ton. (Just kidding
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I'm very curious as to where tonewoods will be going in the future. I'm already seeing some very unusual stuff out there. Maybe someone will discover the ultimate tonewood, something no one ever suspected. But I'd also like to see more R&D in advanced materials in acoustic guitars. But I wish all the makers would leave electronics as an option. I play acoustic. If I wanted electronics, I'd get a Les Paul or a Strat.
Sugar Bear
