Re: buying it used = absolution

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

Damn, Steven, you make an excellent point! Perhaps my mind had blotted out
what I knew about the macro-scale destruction of forests. I feel like R.
Crumb's Flakey Foont character when he smacks his own forehead in
realization of having done something stoopid. When people in Brazil are
burning ACRES of excellent mahogany logs FOR F***KING CHARCOAL, it really
does not make sense to beat oneself up over having a guitar of tropical
wood, does it?
And you should see this zebra tele.... mmmmmm.... honey stain.... grain
like a million rivers...hypnotizing... scrotum-crushingly heavy, worse than
a Les Paul, but sounds and looks like a dream.
Yours in Perspective,
Tim 


> [Original Message]
> From: S V G <vsyevolod@yahoo.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 1/22/2005 9:15:17 PM
> Subject: Re: buying it used = absolution
>
>
>      As a builder of African marimbas, I get the occassional person ask
about "responsably
> harvested" wood.  I did quite a bit of research into it a few years back
and came up with a rather
> jaded view of the organizations "certifying" certain woods as
"ecologically sound".
>
>      As far as Zebrawood goes, there is plenty of it.  What we are
running into short supply on is
> the "quick tree".  Most of the world's supply of Zebrawood is growing in
places that are not easy
> to access or to haul wood from.  It sometimes has to be cut by hand and
hauled for a long ways
> before it can be loaded onto a truck.
>
>      90% of the world's rainforest destruction is happening by "slash and
burn" methods to make
> way for monoagriculture.  This kinda puts the whole "should I boycott
exotic hardwoods" question
> into a different perspective.  
>
>      I strongly encourage you to feel guilty if that is your path in 
>life.
>
>      Me, I stay out of the debate.  :)
>
>            Stephen
>
>
>
>
> > well, back in '87, I bought my late-70s zebrawood tele body used, so 
>I'd
> > say...ummm...yeah, sure, enjoy!   (LOL) Someone later told me that
> > zebrawood was endangered, which makes it about as politically correct 
>as
> > peeing on a homeless man, but like I said, it's not as if I'd put in a
> > custom order. (Is it endangered, or have I been feeling guilty about
> > nothing?)
>
>
>               
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