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It just fucking wood. It's wood. Nice fancy wood. But still just wood.
It just fucking wood. It's wood. Nice fancy wood. But still just wood.
Fingers, pickups, amplifier. Those are the three things that matter most, assuming your guitar is constructed properly. The rest is mostly snake oil, IMO
Yeah, I agree too.Fingers, pickups, amplifier. Those are the three things that matter most, assuming your guitar is constructed properly. The rest is mostly snake oil, IMO
What about the poor fucks that get paid to cut those trees down? In a way, your tree hugging sustainability crusade can be devastating to a human, families. What a conundrum.Well sustainability might be an annoying catchphrase but its pretty basic really - don't use stuff to the point where you're gonna make it extinct.
I agree, that most of what is written about Tonewood is bollocks and an Ebony fretboard won't make a blind bit of difference to the tone of a guitar. I'd chose Ebony for a fretboard just 'cos its the nicest feeling fretboard wood; I just think that its important that the wood we use is sustainably sourced a) so it doesn't run out and b) so it doesn't lead to environmental damage in the country that you get it from.
My next guitar is gonna be made out of maple, ebony, ash and elm. I did enquire as to the source of the Ebony when I ordered it, but there's not a lot else you can do really as there's no "stamp of approval" type thing as you'd get with something like diamonds. He knew all about legality of Ebony and could describe how he sourced it etc - but I suppose he could have just been lying.
I didn't actually realise when I ordered it that English Elm is actually pretty rare too.
Quite the opposite - they'll have fuck all left to harvest if it all gets chopped down. Chop less of it down, do it sustainably and charge more for it. They'll have an industry for future generations.What about the poor fucks that get paid to cut those trees down? In a way, your tree hugging sustainability crusade can be devastating to a human, families. What a conundrum.
To be honest I didn't actually start considering it that seriously until after I had ordered the guitar, I just wanted to check it was sustainable - I didn't realise how rare Ebony actually is. I was telling my bro in law about it (he's Kenyan) and he was explaining to me how dire the situation is getting with some hardwoods. I had assumed that guitars were such a small user that it wouldn't have an impact - I didn't realise just how little was left.Ah, that's what I figured. So it's only important that others actually act on your concerns about endangered woods and sustainability.
Quite the opposite - they'll have fuck all left to harvest if it all gets chopped down. Chop less of it down, do it sustainably and charge more for it. They'll have an industry for future generations.
Instead of going fullbore greenpeace hippie with it, why can't someone develop a way to determine if a tree is desirable before cutting it down? Like a core sample or something. What else is ebony wood used for anyway? Fretboards alone can't be the only thing causing them to be endangered.
So they cut down ten trees to use one? Lol. Hilarious. People are so retarded.
Yeah, its fucking mental isn't it. They'd cut it down, see that it wasn't all black and just leave it there. Fucking idiots.
I think a lot of sustainability is avoiding mindless waste really. If you start using every tree instead of 1 in 10 then you immediately start cutting down 90% less trees than you were previously. Good, eh?Yeah, I don't care about hot-button hipster ideas like sustainability, but I don't support mindless waste either