i did read that posting chris thanks for that - i had seen it in a cutout some where else as well
i read about 10 fine furniture / trade wood magazines from around the world a month every month and I have done for many years so I am well versed on the real wood issues .
american industry is basically fucked for sources of wood — so their own stocks are controlled and policed very heavily as are the alternate sources and replacement woods /plastic veneers
they lobby the rest of the world to use their rules .. normal tactics
the europeans are the same but they are much better at real solutions and have different needs and solutions
But no more trees !
unfortunately the large part of the new replacement wood product are US companies products and they are seen as very high value commodities such is are reliance on wood products
and they have heavy lobby group action on government constantly it is very much politics nowadays
Maybe not so much the environment saviors they masquerade as .. But who knows ?
because of the size of the market and the amount of money involved
when i see names like dupoint being thrown around in the same sentence as the leading envirowood companies
My alarm bells are ringing !
i suspect Gibson were being greedy and somebody made an example out of them
not to save the trees but to lobby the plastics forum
most of the fast growing replacement woods have a complicated wood "printing" process to make them look as good as the ones ausrock showed - the europeans dont bother with that they invent new substrates and promote new "looks"
i like furniture veneers in the traditional french burl type sense — i should state that
but i am not into what is going on in the name of saving the planet in regard to "pretend woods"
but if something is made of plastic and graffite / aluminum mix then printed to look like wood , even if the product is amazing strong and looks like wood i am not sure why it needs to look like wood
(and my brother overseas installing many tonnes of the new stuff a year up in the Darwin botanic gardens as fences and decks where he works managing the cities "forest")
well frankly those new "woods" are just bullshit we have to use because the real woods are gone .. wasted
- so we might as well paint them brown and tell people it's a new thermoset plastic metal thingy designed to save the trees - i reckon pretending they are trees is just weird and at its foundation a big business lie
If they can make drum parts or guitar parts that do the job the same or maybe even better bring them on !
but give them some cool name like "lucasite , or rozewellite " or whatever it takes to make somebody make the purchase dont make it look like we can all have AAA grade woods for $2 that doesnt help i reckon
leave the trees in the ground - use the manageable stocks wisely
and never take the time it takes to grow a giant for granted
my current favorite wood is australian ringed gidgee
the clever little tree never grew big enough to be of use as a furniture wood or construction wood and it's a hard as can be and as beautiful as any wood you have even seen
its basically a wattle type bush and there are unseen miles of the stuff minding their own business in nsw and qld
So the loggers only ever burnt it as firewood to boil their billys while they were traveling through to find forests to cut down and send to England ! (who ran out of trees before robin hood was around -he has living in a managed forest!)
but gidgee will be a valued tone wood soon enough but thankfully it is already on the do not touch without a permit list
As are by the way ...ALL australian trees !
for all the bullshit through at the australian forestry lot good and bad
we lead the world in looking after our stocks —
theres more to be done but i reckon
Putting the wood in the right place in peoples mind
is the solution -
not making the idea of beautiful wood poison !
back to the thread if we can