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What is — World’s most trafficked Wild Commodity?
It’s Rosewood according to this recent National Geographic article.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/a...d-trafficking/ |
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This is very sad. As long as there are truly poor and hungry people and people that will pay for illegal natural products, it will continue.
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Time to stop buying rosewood guitars
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Stop if you're buying illegally sourced rosewood.
Mine is legal. |
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Was this what Gibson got busted for sometime back?
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From the last few paragraphs...
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These final two paragraphs are key for us guitar players; I’m still trying to understand the implications of it. I guess in the final analysis the use of domestic woods like Gibson is doing with some of their models is the only real solution to a problem that involves complex world wide corruption. I wonder if Taylor is immune to this problem of corruption with their supply of ebony, on the other hand.
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I love my Walnut J-15.
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I bypassed the issue and went with walnut. It's ok, I'm not very good anyway so I don't need those lush overtones on all my wrong notes.
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True; with some rosewood guitars like the Martin OM the sustain must always be reigned in to achieve clear note separation - kind of like a fast car with lots of braking; reckless driving leads to bad accidents/ error. Accuracy is always paramount.
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FWIW I love rosewood as a tonewood from the perspective of a guitar player a hobbyist guitar maker. I haven't bought any raw rosewood since it went under CITES protection just in case and my last raw lumber purchase was walnut.
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My grand mother was Brazilian and had a lot of nice rosewood furniture. When she passed away in the 70s years ago my mother brought all her furniture up to the states. My Mom passed away 7 years ago and the furniture is now in my possession. I always look at the beautiful rosewood and think of how many guitars it could make. However, my kids have already said they want the furniture, probably more for sentimental reasons as today's styles are so different.
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