Comments on: The Lucky Strike Redwood. Tonewood profile.

By: Coastal Redwood. Tonewood profile « Guitarbench

Coastal Redwood. Tonewood profile « Guitarbench — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:20:38 +0000

[...] Lucky Strike is the most famous redwood tree amongst guitarists. Harvested by Craig and Alica Carter, ‘Lucky Strike’ is the name Craig gave to a log he thought of as almost, if not truly perfect for guitar tops. Read more about the lucky strike log here. [...]

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2006 Lowden F35cx. SN 15487. Guitar Database. « Guitarbench — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:01:44 +0000

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Marc Beneteau Guitars. Luthier Interview « Guitarbench — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:04:10 +0000

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By: 2006 Lowden F35cx. SN 15487. « Goodacoustics

2006 Lowden F35cx. SN 15487. « Goodacoustics — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:37:44 +0000

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By: M. D. Vaden of Oregon

M. D. Vaden of Oregon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:16:53 +0000

Interesting. I was browsing “lucky strike” and “redwood” and “guitar”, and what do you know, my redwood photo of Del Norte Titan.

About 15 years ago, I met a young man who made his own guitar frets from carbide, and the machine to grind them to that shape.

My guess is that he would have enjoyed tinkering with redwood, because he had used redcedar for a few miniature guitar tops.

MDV / Oregon

By: terence

terence — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:12:05 +0000

Hi Mark,

thanks for your feedback, I was wondering if you had any pics of this great redwood to share with us?

By: Mark Mestman

Mark Mestman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:20:19 +0000

Several years ago, I was given a pretty good sized cant of lovely old growth Pacific Coast Redwood, which had been harvested around 100 years ago in the Redwood belts near Santa Cruz, CA.

This cant was cut from the trestle which supported a very old large workbench in a very old barn. The property owner realized this perfectly quarter-sawn Redwood cant, with it’s 30+ grains per inch of dead-straight grain, was too special to buck into firewood. He felt this wood had some “special purpose,” as he called it, and he declined to crosscut the cant at all.

Years later, when that property owner and I became friends, when he learned that I was a guitarmaker, he gave that huge Redwood cant to me. I resawed that cant into 40 of the nicest Redwood tops I have ever seen, let alone built with!

By: Coastal Redwood. Tonewood profile | Guitarbench.com- For Guitar Lovers

Coastal Redwood. Tonewood profile | Guitarbench.com- For Guitar Lovers — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:54:42 +0000

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By: grace

grace — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:14:11 +0000

Beautiful picture!

By the way, thanks for being 1 of my top 10 EC droppers.

By: terence

terence — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:49:26 +0000

Hi Kerry,

Thank you for your feedback- it’s hard to balance the length of articles from the frequency of posts so at the moment, we are constantly changing things- if you notice, our interviews are current quite long and most of the feature articles are medium length.

Shortest are the tonewood and instrument databases where we provide most of the stem of the article and invite comments from luthiers and players to give their own indepedent views.