Members JerseyGuy Posted December 20, 2011 Members Share Posted December 20, 2011 No way this is legal: http://www.observer.com/2011/11/want-to-see-sandy-weills-88m-apartment/#slide3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Opa John Posted December 20, 2011 Members Share Posted December 20, 2011 No way this is legal:http://www.observer.com/2011/11/want-to-see-sandy-weills-88m-apartment/#slide3 Money talks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted December 20, 2011 Members Share Posted December 20, 2011 Must smell wonderful. I read somewhere that back in the days, the biggest use of Brazillian rosewood was in the manufacture of caskets. Furniture next, musical instruments a very small part of the total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sgt. Rock Posted December 20, 2011 Members Share Posted December 20, 2011 Which is better, Indian or Brazilian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members riovine Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 meh, stumpwood, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mister natural Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 Which is better, Indian or Brazilian? depends on whether you like orange & black (Brazil) or blood-red & black (Indian) at this point, Brazil is very rare - most sustainability in the east . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members larry50 Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 Which is better, Indian or Brazilian? I think I would prefer to be buried in Brazilian. But, I'm a wild kind of guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members katopp Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 Actually, I LOVE the looks of very good SEA rosewood like Binh uses in his better builts. I've seen Braz and I'm not that much in love with it, visually spoken.Maybe it's because I've mostly seen SEA rosewood in my life and less braz? Dunno... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 That's just veneer paneling. You probably couldn't make guitars out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FretFiend. Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 That is Sandy Weill we're talking about. No plywood in that apartment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted December 22, 2011 Members Share Posted December 22, 2011 It should have been snake wood.....but I guess if you're on a budget..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FretFiend. Posted December 22, 2011 Members Share Posted December 22, 2011 ...I read somewhere that back in the days, the biggest use of Brazillian rosewood was in the manufacture of caskets... New source of Braz rosewood. Old graves. Better than stumpwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rickjes Posted December 23, 2011 Members Share Posted December 23, 2011 he can afford it.......or should I say we can afford to give it to him ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Starrshine Posted December 23, 2011 Members Share Posted December 23, 2011 I saw on NBC news last night that the money from the sale was donated to charity. That's kind of cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mister natural Posted December 23, 2011 Members Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think I would prefer to be buried in Brazilian. But, I'm a wild kind of guy. I'll share here : really don't care what color the wood of MY casket . . . just take an audio recording of the event @ 96khz - not unsufferable @44.1khz :satiire: peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members larry50 Posted December 23, 2011 Members Share Posted December 23, 2011 I'll share here : really don't care what color the wood of MY casket . . . just take an audio recording of the event @ 96khz - not unsufferable @44.1khz :satiire: peace Actually, my religious background and heritage dictates a plain wood box. The rub is in the definition of "plain". To some, it means a simple pine or cedar box. To me, it means some nice quarter sawn mahogany, as long as it has no binding and a satin finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted December 24, 2011 Members Share Posted December 24, 2011 http://www.hanoverbrazil.com/rosewood-guitars.shtml This guy is selling a lot of reject wood. Martin never built with this stuff. Even his "Imperial Grade" sets are at best average. Now this is some serious Brazilian rosewood...it can flame/quilt but it's super rare: But something like this is what I would consider luthier grade Brazilian rosewood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members windmill Posted December 24, 2011 Members Share Posted December 24, 2011 It probably wasn't illegal when it was done or when the wood was cut. Putting today's attitudes on the past ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted December 24, 2011 Members Share Posted December 24, 2011 The reason Brazilian rosewood is threatened has mostly to do with the deforrestation of the Brazilian rainforest itself. The wood isn't even consumed as lumber....just burnt up. The forrest is cut down for human encroachment for agriculture and just plain living space. Next on the list is lumber consumption, but most of that lumber is consumed by locals for use within Brazil and the veneer trade. The idea that guitars are killing off all of the Brazilian rosewood in the world is just plain short sighted. You could probably supply the world's entire demand for Brazilian rosewood for instrument wood by the trees that die from weather and natural causes (along with salvage wood and wood recovered from the stumps of already dead trees). Something to think about when you have all these well meaning people making laws to keep someone flying on a plane internationally to get his old Martin confiscated. They think they are helping Brazilian rosewood make a comeback. Barking up the wrong tree IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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