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To: okie01

Yep, and Fender buys exactly the same wood from the same suppliers. No raid, no hassle.


24 posted on 02/02/2014 9:29:48 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: null and void
Yep, and Fender buys exactly the same wood from the same suppliers. No raid, no hassle.

Representatives from Fender and Martin were on the same sourcing trip to Madagascar as Gibson employee Gene Nix. That's the trip where Nix reported to Gibson that Roger Thunam's wood was under government seizure and could not legally be purchased because it was new wood, clearly harvested after the 2006 ban.

Fender and Martin didn't buy any Madagascar ebony from Thunam. Gibson did.

35 posted on 02/02/2014 10:14:10 AM PST by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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