Reclaimed Wood, question for BP

[Stratty316]

I noticed that the "other guys" are making a big deal about using reclaimed wood for some special edition guitars. Has there ever been a though of special EBMM offerings of a similar type? Or is this more of a gimmick to make people feel good about a "new" guitar. Just wondering as I got an email about someone using reclaimed pine and redwood for their instruments.


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[DrewH]

This isn't new. There have been runs of these done in the last 5-6 years. One of the runs was done using pine from the Amoskeag mills in Manchester NH. I used to live there and actually went to college about 5 buildings down from where they salvaged the old pine beams. Personally, I don't see anything gimmicky. If you have a personal tie to these locations, these instruments can have some sentimental value. I'd give an arm to get my hands on one of those pine guitars but the run was done and over before I knew about it. I'd love to see one of these PDN offerings done using reclaimed wood. I talked to a guy from the Music Zoo who was dealing in said past runs of these and said they sound quite nice.

 

[Big Poppa]

we did some old redwood a few years back

 

[Sweat]

Way overrated, and if your referring to the highly overpriced fender pine stuff well thankfully MM is not touching that, did not realize the redwood was that way but that was cool, redwood versus pine no comparison, if your going to recycle wood into guitars make it super rare.

Get your Koa now soon not to be that easy to get from my reading but hell I am wrong alot, bottom line recycled crap is well .............................................................................

 

[Tollywood]

we did some old redwood a few years back

Oh yes you did...my son, Eric, still has this bad boy: (thanks Sweat!)

 

[mtrejo]

I was considering using reclaimed wood in my office, one or two walls. Looks pretty friggin sharp if you do it right, and most of my guitars are in my office so it still kind of pairs up. There ya go, reclaimed wood and guitars in a roundabout way.

Now I just need a cool name for the office like "Tolliewood" right B?

 

[Stratty316]

I'm sure we can come up with something



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[TNT]

I was also thinking of using reclaimed structural pest control debris, but there was nothing left.

 

[Tollywood]

I was considering using reclaimed wood in my office, one or two walls. Looks pretty friggin sharp if you do it right, and most of my guitars are in my office so it still kind of pairs up. There ya go, reclaimed wood and guitars in a roundabout way.

Now I just need a cool name for the office like "Tolliewood" right B?

Yup, all credit for naming Tollywood goes to Mario...but, I changed the 'ie' to a 'y' to more closely resemble the Hollywood sign. Although, I still haven't made the letters like the sign to hang on the wall yet. Thanks for helping me decide on a color for the walls, too, Mario. I am painting the walls milk chocolate.

 

[Stratty316]

Oh yes you did...my son, Eric, still has this bad boy: (thanks Sweat!)

I remember those... Killer looking Axis.


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[auxren]

Kind of like the drum shells DW did with the reclaimed wood from Lake Superior?

 

[Eric O'Reilly]

That redwood is sick. I think its a novel idea and very cool to repurpose this material, you get some really cool almost unnatural figuring with these old woods, and the tone possibilities are endless since no two pieces of wood will sound the same, I would like too see some more done with some rare repurposed woods.

 

[FantasyMetal]

That redwood is awesome!