question about brazillian rosewood

[Oudy]

i know braziliian rosewood is almost extinct and that if you say bought a neck from warmoth that had braziliian rosewood on it they wouldnt be able to ship it out of the united states. is it illegal to take a guitar overseas that has brazillian rosewood in it? like will they confinscate the guitar or what? what if i got a ncek with a BZRW fretboard and got it shipped to the us and took it back to australia with me?


anyone wanna chime in with some answers or point me in the right direction? i would appreciate it a lot.


TYIA

 

[newking70]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

no, they wouldn't confiscate your axe....how the hell are they gonna know it's brazilian rosewood?

 

[jerryjg]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

: popworm:Yes , they have trained Brazillian Rosewood sniffing dogs now.

 

[Artie]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

I'm not sure if they've actually enacted it into law yet, but they are working on that very thing. It would be illegal for someone like Itzhak Perlman to take his Strativarius across borders because the bow is made out of rosewood. Sorry to get political, but its the insanity of all this environmental crap gone out of control.

And Rosewood isn't "almost extinct" or endangered. Its controlled by gov't for economic reasons. There's a website around here somewhere, where I couple guys bought some rosewood for guitar building. They then went and planted some rosewood tree seeds to grow some more. When they casually mentioned it to someone, the local authorities made them go back to the place, and dig up all the seeds they planted. They didn't want anymore trees to grow because it might lower the selling price of their "rare" wood.

Its all just political crap. All of it!

 

[Oudy]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

I'm not sure if they've actually enacted it into law yet, but they are working on that very thing. It would be illegal for someone like Itzhak Perlman to take his Strativarius across borders because the bow is made out of rosewood. Sorry to get political, but its the insanity of all this environmental crap gone out of control.

And Rosewood isn't "almost extinct" or endangered. Its controlled by gov't for economic reasons. There's a website around here somewhere, where I couple guys bought some rosewood for guitar building. They then went and planted some rosewood tree seeds to grow some more. When they casually mentioned it to someone, the local authorities made them go back to the place, and dig up all the seeds they planted. They didn't want anymore trees to grow because it might lower the selling price of their "rare" wood.

Its all just political crap. All of it!

so what you're saying is that if i got a guitar with a braz. rosewood fretboard i might not be able to take it out of the country with me?

 

[Artie]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

so what you're saying is that if i got a guitar with a braz. rosewood fretboard i might not be able to take it out of the country with me?

Possibly. I'd have to do a search and see if that law has actually been inacted. Last I saw, they were just considering it. I'll see if I can find that webpage.

 

[Oudy]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

Possibly. I'd have to do a search and see if that law has actually been inacted. Last I saw, they were just considering it. I'll see if I can find that webpage.

i know that warmoith can't ship overseas but that would be selling it overseas but im not sure if i brought my personal instrument with me that i would be playing it would cause problems, im kinda wanting to know cos i might put a strat together int he next 2 months and ive been eyeing a few BR boards, if i can't i might go with ziricote because it looks just as cool

 

[jmh151]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

Check out Pau ferro. It looks very similar to Brazilian Rosewood, but is smooth like Ebony

 

[Oudy]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

Check out Pau ferro. It looks very similar to Brazilian Rosewood, but is smooth like Ebony

I was actually looking at pau ferro since i know SRV had it in his guitar but my second choice is probally ziricote because i really really like the spider web style grain (or a nice birdseye neck/fretboard for a really nice strat look)

 

[jmh151]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

I was actually looking at pau ferro since i know SRV had it in his guitar but my second choice is probally ziricote because i really really like the spider web style grain (or a nice birdseye neck/fretboard for a really nice strat look)

Actually, Stevie's number one had brazilian rosewood. Fender only had a limited supply of brazilian rosewood, so Stevie approved Pau Ferro as a substitute for his signature guitar.

The first 100 or so has brazilian rosewood fretbaords- because Fender was using old stock custom shop necks that still had brazilian rosewood on them. After that they switched to Pau Ferro.

 

[Oudy]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

Actually, Stevie's number one had brazilian rosewood. Fender only had a limited supply of brazilian rosewood, so Stevie approved Pau Ferro as a substitute for his signature guitar.

The first 100 or so has brazilian rosewood fretbaords- because Fender was using old stock custom shop necks that still had brazilian rosewood on them. After that they switched to Pau Ferro.

oh! i never knew that. ive never been huge into stevie like most guys on the forums but i have a huge amount of respect for his sound and style, just not really my thing personally but man that man could play. pau ferro will definitely be an option on the table if i see a piece on warmoth that i like but ziricote and birdseye are a bit higher on my priorities

im thinking ether a maple or a swamp ash body for this project, im not really sure though and ether a h/s/s or s/s/s config, i don't know a lot about strat pickups though.

might make a thread and let the forums decide for me even.

I was thinking of something like this

(made using the guitar kiskae but im not sure if you can put a FR on semi hollobody instruments, i know chris poland's semi hollow yamaha has one but i guess it's specially made so it can? or if it's just full hollow guitars that can't have floyds.

 

[Oudy]

Re: question about brazillian rosewood

this is the reply i just got back from warmoth

"Hello,
That isn’t something we can advise on as we are not lawyers. We do know that we
cannot legally export products that contain Brazilian rosewood.

Thanks for writing"

so they dont really have any idea about it and i don't want to like...book time with an overseas lawyer for it just for a small question like that