HawkeyeKane
99 posts
Aug 26, 2011
8:02 AM
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Whoopsie...
On a note related to this, there's a luthier here in town who makes REALLY nice acoustic guitars from Amazonian mahogany. He goes to Brazil twice a year and fishes mahogany logs out of the river himself and brings them back to cut out middle men. But since he's only doing the equivalent of going and picking up sticks off the ground and not chopping downn trees, I can't imagine that he'd be falling under the same scrutiny. I've been thinking of asking him to consider making combs out of it.
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Hawkeye Kane
Last Edited by on Aug 26, 2011 9:00 AM
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LIP RIPPER
486 posts
Aug 26, 2011
11:02 AM
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They'll not stop until they've destroyed everything that made this country what it "was".
PS. Is this a move to take the sights off of holder?
Last Edited by on Aug 26, 2011 11:04 AM
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nacoran
4505 posts
Aug 26, 2011
12:03 PM
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Unfortunately, once a tree is gone no one will be able to make more instruments out of it and there are people who are willing to poach ivory or harvest illegal trees. You need laws against that, but you've got to balance that against fairness. Instead of seizing a guitar at the border and leveling fines and possible criminal charges for what may be a paperwork snafu wouldn't it make more sense to bring in an expert (possibly at the guitar owner's expense, it's got to be less than the regular fines) and get the instrument figured out?
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Nate
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KingoBad
873 posts
Aug 26, 2011
2:23 PM
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If you could only cut the exotic wood tree so it could fall on the elephant, you'd really clean up!!!!
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Danny
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