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is old wood always better?
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Peter Tsiorba
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Joined: Oct. 27 2009
From: Portland, Oregon Pacific Northwest
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RE: is old wood always better? (in reply to mezzo)
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Mezzo, I'm not sure old wood is automatically better. Otherwise, any old person would just be a wonderful human being Yet we all know there are plenty of tired, old, no good cranks out there! Plenty of young ones, too. Advantages of drying and stabilizing wood, let's say over a few months or years, are well understood: more stability, less cracking, warping, soft resin content in spruces, etc. Whether a 10 year old or 50 year old wood is better or not (all other criteria being equal) is less clear. There is evidence that Torres, perhaps intentionally, scavenged for old wood for some of his guitars (disassembling table legs and furniture, if I remember correctly from "Torres, His Life And Work" book by Jose Romanillos). Was it paucity of wood and financial resources, or sonic considerations? Maybe both? I'm currently completing a guitar with very old Brazilian wood, nearly 40-year old German spruce top and 100-year old bracing wood. I'm anxious to hear the guitar: http://www.tsiorba.com/767/recent-work/
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