Driftwood as tonewood?

[Nostalgic Distortion]

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This was originally a Big Bull Pine nearly 5 ft across at its cut base!!! They can be hit or miss when you pull them from the water but when they are hit they are beautiful!!! You’d be pretty hard pressed to find this down at your local HomeDepot...

 

[Coma]

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One of the coolest guitars I've ever seen was an acoutstic built by an australian luthier. He had fished out a pallet that had been waterlogged for a century, made of some fancy less-than-ordinary wood. So he made a dreadnought out of it, even kept the nails in, so you could see little nubs of it in the wood. Beautiful guitar, wonderful tone.

 

[A Wee Black Dug]

I see this post is pretty old now, but in case anyone is still wondering driftwood can make a great tonewood..! Sometimes it just crumbles to dust when it dries out and sometimes it can be saved with some resin but often it is fine once dried.
These two are made from driftwood washed up on the beach here in Scotland.

 

[solspirit]

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How about petrified wood?

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[Mincer]

I see this post is pretty old now, but in case anyone is still wondering driftwood can make a great tonewood..! Sometimes it just crumbles to dust when it dries out and sometimes it can be saved with some resin but often it is fine once dried.
These two are made from driftwood washed up on the beach here in Scotland.

These look great! Tell us more about them!

 

[GuitarStv]

Would a guitar built with driftwood help me stay in time with the drummer when his rhythm starts drifting?

 

[Artie]

There's a few people on YT that make guitars from salvaged wood, by reinforcing the wood with poured resin. Here's just one example where the guitar was made from a pallet.

 

[Artie]

Here's another:

 

[Benjy_26]

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A driftwood guitar stand or some driftwood wall hangers would be pretty cool!!!

I live in a old logging town where they used to float thousands of trees down the river from as far away as Quebec every day to make pulp & there's tons of them that got lodged in mud or stuck on the bottom. These trees will sometimes wash up during the spring thaw or people will go dig them out because a lot of them were virgin timber that are now full of beautiful mineral stains. At that point they're basically just really old & really large pieces of driftwood but they can be worked into some very interesting things!!!

Was it Taylor, or was it PRS that made a run of guitars with (I think) 200 year old sunken logs?

 

[Mincer]

Here's another:

Resin is heavy and dense. I wonder what it does for the sound (or shoulder).

 

[Artie]

Resin is heavy and dense. I wonder what it does for the sound (or shoulder).

I wondered that too. But they look cool.

 

[solspirit]

Resin is heavy and dense. I wonder what it does for the sound (or shoulder).

Resin is for tables and boat repair, not guitars.

 

[solspirit]

There's all sorts of driftwood. I've lived by the ocean almost all of my life. There are chunks of African, Central or South American hardwoods that land all over the east coast.
as far as the west coast is concerned, there's an abundance of driftwood from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

 

[blakejcan]

I know Taylor makes those guitars out of wood from trees that grow on the side of the freeway that nobody wants.

 

[Chris Pile]

I know Taylor makes those guitars out of wood from trees that grow on the side of the freeway that nobody wants.

WHUT?

 

[GuitarStv]

WHUT?

https://www.taylorguitars.com/guitar...oods/urban-ash


I haven't played one, but they certainly don't look terrible.

 

[PFDarkside]

Was it Taylor, or was it PRS that made a run of guitars with (I think) 200 year old sunken logs?

Yes, Taylor, called “sinker tops”!

 

[Chris Pile]

So "urban ash" isn't ash at all... Why not just call it whatever it is?

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

So "urban ash" isn't ash at all... Why not just call it whatever it is?

If they did, they wouldn't be able to charge the unsuspecting sucker over a grand for it.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...guitar-natural

 

[Mincer]

So "urban ash" isn't ash at all... Why not just call it whatever it is?

I think many companies were guilty of that over the years.