Author Topic: Exotic Woods (Read 320 times)

David Houck · « **Reply #15 on:** April 24, 2006, 12:48:46 PM »

Hmmm ... it seems to me the I must have known this at some time in the past but just no longer remember. So I've learned something new today, even if not for the first time!

So if you owned a Fender bass (as in the Fender Foto Flame mentioned above) and took it to your local luthier to have the neck shaved, he would be sanding a piece of plastic?

Keith; those Laklands sure have long necks!

John; nice house!!

mica · « **Reply #16 on:** April 24, 2006, 12:56:33 PM »

Another thing to consider is that traditionally, most woodwoerkers used available (local) materials. Purpleheart decks? Ebony railroad ties? Rosewood floors? Sure, where the materials grow. Now, exotic, imported materials are much easier to come by.

David Houck · « **Reply #17 on:** April 24, 2006, 01:11:44 PM »

In the house I lived in before my current home, I was just a few hundred feet from the rairoad tracks. And I loved the sound and feel of a coal drag rumbling through! But Ebony railroad ties!! (I wouldn't mind having a nice Purpleheart deck and some Rosewood floors too!)

keith_h · « **Reply #18 on:** April 25, 2006, 04:05:27 AM »

Dave,
They sure do. After seeing this one it makes you wonder why people complain about the reach on long scale Series basses. :-)

Keith

811952 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 25, 2006, 05:56:41 AM »

Keith - That's just a photo-realistic finish I'm wearing! I could choose between 8 year old boy and goat, so I chose the one less likely to get hoof and mouth. Or maybe that's simply how young I *feel* when I get to play music with my friends. I know you can relate.

Dave - As for the house, thanks. It's waaaaay too much house for us, but it sits invisibly far back off the road in the woods (about 100 feet from where Tracy and I were married), and isn't completed yet. We did everything but the exterior log work and roof ourselves. Ugh. If I could do it over, I would have paid someone to build it. One day it will be finished (or nearly so) and then we can sell it and move to Nova Scotia or back to Alaska. One day...

We never considered the photo-realistic flooring, because it really doesn't stand a chance in a house with my family. We Fords are inclined to destroy that which we touch. We went with bamboo instead (save the trees and such) and are quite pleased.

I think if the Foto-finish gets a young person (or old) interested in picking up an affordable instrument to noodle around on, then that's not a bad thing. If the noodling comes to naught, then we haven't wasted a good tree. If things instead work out and the person continues to play, they will follow their bliss to something that resonates both musically and with their soul, and that's not a bad thing.

John

David Houck · « **Reply #20 on:** April 25, 2006, 06:24:16 AM »

John; sitting invisibly far back off the road in the woods sounds great! I keep getting the impression that Nova Scotia is really nice; but maybe a bit cool in the winter. Bamboo floors; I think that was discussed in a previous thread a few years back; sounds like a great idea!