Westerly Wood
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The Nashville instrument-maker is in crisis mode as it hammers out a company restructuring....
Meanwhile, longtime customers have in recent years been complaining of a decline in quality in products such as the signature Les Paul....
The Nashville instrument-maker is in crisis mode as it hammers out a company restructuring....
What about the Bozeman instrument maker?
I'm with you, Coug. Every time I pick up this Hummingbird 12 out of Bozeman, I like it even more!....
Bozeman has unveiled a couple of new lines of acoustics for 2019 that look quite nice, including a Sustainable Wood series.
With no snark intended:Kinda ironic that a wood poacher like Henry J introduces a "sustainable wood" series. Wonder if he found religion?
Wonder if they've been barred from importing their traditional preferred species?
For sure I was thinking more of the rosewood and possibly even mahogany.That certainly seems to be the case for ebony that they used to use for the fretboards on the Songwriter, among other acoustics I suppose. I would have preferred an ebony board, but they haven't been offered for a number of years. I can live with a rosewood board...
...I recall a story about Bob Taylor cornering the market by buying up the production areas, "IIRC", ostensibly more to ensure future supply at all, than for profiteering. (Which I'm willing to believe)....
Kinda ironic that a wood poacher like Henry J introduces a "sustainable wood" series. Wonder if he found religion?
I saw the video he did explaining what was happening to the world's ebony supply and thought he was quite sincere. It was like shooting elephants just to take their tails and ivory and trash the rest. He explained the variegated stuff was still 100% ebony, and that was really the future of ebony whether anybody liked it or not. Made sense to me. But I still like older guitars with beautiful dark ebony fretboards.
I actually like the striped stuff too.