Dw 1500 timeless timber year old free#

It's a shame that more old growth redwood isn't available, but even here in PA, most of our old forests are gone and not only do the remaining trees have looser grain, but the types that dominate an older forest are a lot harder to find.Ĭlick to expand.Apologies in advance for the length of this post, if you don't like to read. 'I have taylor guitars in sinker and non sinker and i can't hear a difference'.

'it makes a great guitar! Best I've ever played!! warm like rosewood but punchy like sitka!!' The funny thing with sinker is that there's a whole lot of: The only thing that makes me cringe is the forum topics. If it's already in a guitar that was going to be $9000 regardless of whether it was a sinker or a stinker log, no harm no foul.

Dw 1500 timeless timber year old free#

The big push from their marketing seems to be that combined with the 'guilt free eco way to get old growth'.Ĭan't argue with that, either. Wouldn't be surprised if the state of california or counties or other regulatory bodies restrict what you can and can't do even with your own trees. Out of curiosity, I checked to see if there was an equivalent to timeless timber to buy large amounts of sinker redwood (there is).Ĭan't dispute that you get old growth redwood (that's a good thing), and it's probably not as easy to find it anywhere else as it'd have to come from private property, and private landowners aren't going to give it away. In all fairness, they were nice rims, but I'd imagine they'd be just as nice with decent maple right out of a kiln). But using the name probably helped sell block rims for tony pass. (in the case of my maple, it looks like the brand name of the reclaimed wood is aimed more at architecture. And then, hopefully, the rest of the guitar is made more carefully and with more thought and hand time on it just because it's $9,000. I think some kind of stuff like this (sinker wood) is necessary to sell a $9,000 guitar, even if the increase in price for the materials is only $100 or whatever it may be (maybe it's more?). To my eye, it looked better because it was block instead of plywood.but that's superstition on my part. My sunken wood banjo rim sounded good, but so did ply. So, I'm going to go out on a limb and suspect that the difference in how a guitar sounds with good quality wood (sunk or not) probably has more to do with what's under the wood or the level of care in the making. And one side comment that lignin is increased. I can't see too much info on actual changes in submerged wood other than the issue that the outer part of the wood is usually junked (not a big deal on a huge log) and some transfer of bits goes back and forth between sap and heart. Lucky for me, my house is not in one of those low boggy areas so it was never a problem.Īesthetically, it looks nice. I haven't heard anything about it in several years, so I guess they got busy and found ways to address the issue. It was a pretty big deal, as you can imagine - it is not easy to replace those things! They found that some of these poles had been eaten clear through. This bacteria had no problem living in the water, and was quite happy to devour the submerged poles. Then they started to discover that many of these poles ( palen in Dutch) were being eaten by a type of bacteria, known in Holland as the palenpest. There were some problems when the water table receded, and the upper parts of the poles became exposed and began to rot. And everyone thought that all was well, until around 2000. The whole city is built on these things, and they have been down in that mucky sand and mud since the 1500's in some cases - so for several hundred years. And at that length, a pole had to be 24 centimeters in diameter (about 9-1/2').

In Amsterdam, the poles had to be sunk about 12 meters, or 40 feet. They are spaced like a grid, around a meter apart under the entire house. The poles were fir or pine, and had to be long enough to hit bedrock. That building style was quite common in Holland - in fact most of old Amsterdam (and all the other cities) was built this way. Click to expand.very interesting Good Texan, and just by chance I know something about this too!