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To: stinkerpot65

If India has the offending law, then Gibson should stop importing from India. Can’t rosewood be grown elsewhere, like in Hawaii or on U.S. possessions in the Caribbean?


15 posted on 08/27/2011 12:16:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If India has the offending law, then Gibson should stop importing from India. Can’t rosewood be grown elsewhere, like in Hawaii or on U.S. possessions in the Caribbean?

Gibson used to use Brazilian rosewood until importation of that wood was banned. They were also recently in hot water for using rosewood harvested (allegedly illegally) from Madagascar. I don't know how how that story played out but Gibson sure seems to have a target on their back from this current administration.

Lately they've been utilizing something called "Torrified maple" for their fretboards. It's dark brown like rosewood but hard like regular maple. Of course, many Gibson customers are "purists" who believe a Les Paul is a perfect combination of mahogany, maple, rosewood, neck angles, nitrocellulose finishes and even the glue that is used (when Gibson switched from hide glue to Franklin Titebond, hell broke loose!) and any deviation from this formula will produce a different instrument, lacking its signature tone.

In short, putting a Torrified maple fretboard on a Les Paul will undoubtedly result in mountains of angry letters from Gibson players!

35 posted on 08/27/2011 12:57:40 PM PDT by Gena Bukin (Perry/Rubio 2012)
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