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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Fri May 11, 2012 1:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
I was just about to pull the trigger on an order from Alaska Specialty Woods, and then I got paranoid. I think these are the good guys, but I know there is a similarly named one that is to be avoided... Have I picked the right Alaska Wood company? Please Advise... |
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| Author: | murrmac [ Fri May 11, 2012 2:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
Alaska Specialty Woods are in fact the good guys. Alsaka Tonewoods (run by the McCray family) are the guys in the black hats ... |
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| Author: | Tom West [ Fri May 11, 2012 3:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
They are good folks to deal with and if you want Sitka they have some nice stock. Especially bearclaw. Tom |
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| Author: | Chris Ensor [ Fri May 11, 2012 7:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
Alaska Specialty Woods is my preferred place to get sitka. Great quality. |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Fri May 11, 2012 8:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
Brent at Alaska Specialty Woods is indeed a great guy to work with. As for the other said place, it would be really great if nothing more was said about it. Every time they get brought up and bad mouthed I start getting emails of the unfriendly type. Thanks ![[:Y:]](./images/smilies/smiley20.gif "Thumbs Up")
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Fri May 11, 2012 9:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
'Nuff said then... Brent it is, and I will remember for next time. Thanks folks... |
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| Author: | cphanna [ Fri May 11, 2012 9:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
You've got it, but I'm going to take the opportunity to compliment Brent, too. The first time I ordered from him, he contacted me out of the blue a few days later just to be sure I was happy with the order. It goes without saying that I was happy with the order AND with his service. A great deal of his stock comes from standing deadwood and I like that. I haven't bought big quantities because I'm a hobby guy, but the quality has been superb and the prices very, very reasonable. I think anyone can be confident of satisfaction when they deal with Brent. Patrick |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Fri May 11, 2012 10:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
We need a "Like" button at the OLF! cphanna wrote: You've got it, but I'm going to take the opportunity to compliment Brent, too. The first time I ordered from him, he contacted me out of the blue a few days later just to be sure I was happy with the order. It goes without saying that I was happy with the order AND with his service. A great deal of his stock comes from standing deadwood and I like that. I haven't bought big quantities because I'm a hobby guy, but the quality has been superb and the prices very, very reasonable. I think anyone can be confident of satisfaction when they deal with Brent.
Patrick |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Fri May 11, 2012 1:26 pm ] |
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Yeah...."Like". |
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| Author: | Greenman [ Fri May 11, 2012 5:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
 If you go to the website of Alaska Tone woods you get changed to a new website-Celticmusicwoods.com-are these the guys to stay away from? I contacted him about yellow Cedar a while back. Maybe I'm glad I am still thinking about it.
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| Author: | ernie [ Fri May 11, 2012 6:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
greenman ,your right, caveat emptor buyer beware |
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| Author: | Dave Fifield [ Sat May 12, 2012 12:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alaska Woods Do's and Don'ts... |
Is it Alaska Specialty Woods that attend the GAL conference (booth between the two main doors of the upper hall)? If so, I can vouch for the fact that their wood is AWESOME!! For the past two conferences I have come home with stacks of exceedingly high quality soundboard material from them, including some incredible bearclaw.....and all at very fair prices. Cheers, Dave F. |
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