26 Mar
2012
26 Mar
'12
11:44 a.m.
On 03/25/2012 10:33 AM, James Gessling wrote:
That's my view too... OK, if there were only a few such trees still
growing _and nobody was cutting them down_, I probably wouldn't want to
cut one down to get the wood. But if there is already some sort of trade
in said wood, I don;'t feel the maount needed to make a straight-8 cover
will make much differece.
I would certainly consider second-hand rosewood, I feel restoring a
straight-8 is at least as good a use for it as any other :-)
Please don't use real rosewood for the side
panels. Forests around
the world are being destroyed for this increasingly rare commodity.
You've gotta be kidding. Are you concerned that he's going to start
a run on rosewood for all the remaining Straight-8s in the world, and
that dozen or so machines will decimate the world's remaining rosewood?
[shakes head]
No. USE real rosewood for the side panels. Straight-8s don't grow
on trees, wheres rosewood, well, pretty much does!
This reminds me of a cartoon that I saw in a UK computing magazineb over
30 years ago. It was a father talking to his son, and the caption read :
'No I am not buying you a computer for Christmas. You seem to think
Apples grow on trees'
-tony