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| Author: | Danny R. Little [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Of course it would have to be short scale model, with a Waterloo clear coat unbuttoned at the side port. With regret, Danny R. Little |
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| Author: | Mike Collins [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Some of the lovely red Gillotine (sp)wood from France . Help me Laurent ! Mc |
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| Author: | jsmith [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Definitely QS gopherwood from the the Ark's (Noah's--not the "of the Covenant"--not touching' that stuff!) keel. Of course, to maximize tone, I would also have to have nut/saddle material of Unicorn horn. J |
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| Author: | RustySP [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:58 pm ] |
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The big tree from the movie "Avatar". They did knock it down anyway so it's ok, right? |
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| Author: | murrmac [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Ever so slightly off topic, but somehow belonging in this thread, I feel, twenty odd years ago I wanted to turn my second born child's milk teeth on the lathe and use them as fret markers. My (since ex-) wife flatly forbade it, she deemed it gross. Me, I thought it was kind of neat, and not at all gross ... |
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| Author: | Dave Stewart [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Probably the ultimate application is George Rizsanyi's "Six String Nation" guitar, built using 64 historically significant Canadian materials, including Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle, Nancy Greene's skis, Paul Henderson's hockey stick, Rocket Richard's Stanley Cup ring, deck boards from the Bluenose II, & on & on. Google it....it's a hoot! |
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| Author: | Mike OMelia [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:45 pm ] |
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How about Jesus' cross, George Washington's boat (Delaware), Noah's Ark, and the Spruce Goose to name but a few? |
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| Author: | Mike OMelia [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:46 pm ] |
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murrmac wrote: Ever so slightly off topic, but somehow belonging in this thread, I feel, twenty odd years ago I wanted to turn my second born child's milk teeth on the lathe and use them as fret markers. My (since ex-) wife flatly forbade it, she deemed it gross. Me, I thought it was kind of neat, and not at all gross ... 
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| Author: | Darryl Young [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
I would love to build a guitar using mahogany from "The Tree". I would like to have built a guitar from sycamore from the tree my great-grandmother planted that was in my folks yard growing up.......over 3 ft diameter when it was hit by lightning. We pulled the trunk out to the edge of the pasture under an olk tree to rot. I recently checked on it and the log was rotted away. Some of the early war planes were built using spruce frames (as I understand it). If the spar or other brace was large enough, it would be neat to build a guitar from red spruce from an early war plane. |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:00 pm ] |
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My grandmother had a giant walnut in front of his house. I always looked at it... But a part of my grandma's land have been expropriated for roadwork (a new highway). And guess what, both the historical house and the giant walnut tree were on this part of the land. Before I had the chance to cut down the walnut, they crushed and buried it under tons and tons of rock and asphalt. But, there's still a giant sugar maple that seems to have awesome figures. It's there since before the land belongs to our family, so the tree certainly have over 200 years. And my Grandma' told me: when i'm gone, it's your's. Francis |
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| Author: | Mike OMelia [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:04 pm ] |
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Ti-Roux wrote: My grandmother had a giant walnut in front of his house. Francis Love to see the tree that made it! 
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| Author: | Eric Reid [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
verhoevenc wrote: As grim as it sounds I think it would be pretty cool to have human bone nut and saddle. Ya know, like from one of those skeleton's they sell to med schools and stuff. That said... I would for sure use a dust mask whenever working it hahahaha. Chris I'm guessing that you are young enough that the obvious (to me) reference to Nazi human skin lamp shades, etc. was irrelevant to the coolness of the human bone idea. If I can imagine putting that history aside, then I understand the (slightly morbid) "coolness" of the concept. I still have the teeth my daughters lost when they were young. They were very fond then, of a book that told a story of a fairy who traded money for childrens' teeth that she cut into keys for her fairy piano. In that spirit, I applaud the idea of music made from (your own) childrens' teeth. It may take a few more years before human bones are generically "cool". Oh, and I'd love to build a guitar out of wood from Joshua Slocum's "Liberdade". |
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| Author: | David LaPlante [ Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:38 pm ] |
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In an attempt to turn this thread back toward a somewhat more meaningful vein: http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/tr ... 2%7C165594 |
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| Author: | jsmith [ Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:18 pm ] |
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Hey, Mike O'M. Re: wood from the cross. I don't believe it was wide enough to resaw for tonewood, but I'd bet it would make one righteous x-brace. |
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| Author: | Christian Schmid [ Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Maybe this: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1190625120080411 Although I obviously wouldn't want to be responsible for cutting it down, but can you imagine the growth rings? Christian |
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| Author: | Terry Stowell [ Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:12 pm ] |
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verhoevenc wrote: The idea of that Anne Frank chestnut tree is pretty sweet. Especially since I'll be back in Amsterdam in a matter of days. I wonder how one would contact whomever has the log... Chris contact a reporter |
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| Author: | Eric Reid [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:13 am ] |
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verhoevenc wrote: Eric, you should guess less. What a bizarre connection. Please do me a favor - keep your morbid thoughts as your own. Don't attribute them to me - it's frankly insulting as is your ageism. Chris Hey Chris, I guess i won't follow your advice. My apologies for my ageist assumptions, and gruesome comparisons..It was silly of me to try to guess your age. Please take it as a compliment that I was mislead by your youthful demeanor. I look forward to your next guitar--with wood from Anne Frank's tree, and human bone nut and saddle. -Eric |
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| Author: | David LaPlante [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:35 pm ] |
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Eric, The last line of your last post was the singularly most offensive thing that I've ever read on this forum. |
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| Author: | WaddyThomson [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:27 pm ] |
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+ 1 on that! |
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| Author: | Javaca [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:04 pm ] |
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verhoevenc wrote: As grim as it sounds I think it would be pretty cool to have human bone nut and saddle. Ya know, like from one of those skeleton's they sell to med schools and stuff. That said... I would for sure use a dust mask whenever working it hahahaha. Chris I've got some pieces of human bone, found at excavations. They're about 1200 years old, but I wouldn't use it for instruments. Also Danny Marcovich gave me some pieces of mammoth ivory. As you know: I work in Amsterdam, when we heard of the Anne Frank tree my colleague said the same thing. I hope they will find a good use for the wood. It will probably be too brittle for instruments, the tree didn't fall down occasionally. I would like to use some wood from old houses or one of the Roman ships they found here. There is also a piece of a beam from an old castle in the house of my parents. It's oak, but I will find a proper use for it. As for now I will stick to some masonite and wide grained spruce from a pallet.
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| Author: | SteveCourtright [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
About half of the furniture in my home was built with Cherry from a tree that was cut from my Mom's farm, downstate Illinois. It sat in a barn for 20 years, in 3" thick rough-cut slabs, before she decided to let me have it. Here is a little something I made from it - a coffee table with a rubbed oil finish. I should make some guitars, too, I guess. |
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| Author: | the Padma [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Quote: Indian smugglers do not trade only with the bones of the endangered tigers, but also with those of their co-nationals. Indian police has arrested a gang of four men in the city of Jaigaon, who had hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones which they were going to pass into the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for use in Buddhist monasteries. "During interrogation they confessed that the hollow human thigh bones were in great demand in monasteries and were used as blow-horns, and the skulls as vessels to drink from at religious ceremonies," said investigating officer Ravinder Nalwa. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Human-Skulls-For-Drinking-Cups-Human-Thigh-Bones-as-Blow-Horns-58206.shtml Human thigh bone horn  Human skull cup for drinking  Both from " nice friendly holy and peace loving Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries." Aren't us humans a piece of cake! Now the Padma still has a few sets milled from the support beams of Genghis Kans yurt, 800 years old, Mongolian Spruce logged in the Gobie dessert. Stiff like Viagra. Very rare. Serious inquiries only. blessings  Padma
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| Author: | Mike OMelia [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historically Significant Woods You'd LOVE To Build With |
Man has this thread gone South!! Hope you two are done with the jabbin. Padma, what is a yurt? BTW, one could say someone is making a political statement and that is against the TOS. Just sayin, but go on as you see fit. |
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| Author: | Brock Poling [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:19 pm ] |
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Maybe a tree Jefferson planted with his own hands? That would be pretty cool. Headplates from the butt of one of Teddy Roosevelt's gun stocks (you know.. the pre-president badass Teddy) Einstein's (or Feynman's) desk. I am sure I could think of more.. but all of those would be cool. |
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| Author: | Mike OMelia [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:39 pm ] |
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How about some wood from that boat discovered beneath Ground Zero? |
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