Re-purposing old wood
I'm currently using an old piano soundboard for bracing. I used the ivory key veneers for inlay and pulled out the soundboard which was local red spruce. The piano was built in Troy NY (south of the Adirondacks) before WWI. The case wood wasn't worth saving as instrument wood. A couple of decades ago I got a cord or two of old sugarbush firewood and that is being re-purposed for instrument building -- smaller stuff ukuleles and guitar peghead veneer, etc.
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