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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳 
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks im just trying to find european hardwoods that dont suck why are all the cool trees from fucking south america africa and india i dont want exotic woods
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks beech and oak its all beech and oak theres some other options but they're not suitable for lumber so they're not actively cultivated making them harder to get especially if they grow in, say, the uk or ireland (like ash and thorn)
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks fuck the northern hemisphere this shit sucks im moving to peru
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks i swear i cannot find any list of just general hardwood species grown in europe
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_woods this is all ive got. fucking ridiculous
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks just gotta find some fucking maple wood in the middle of an area mostly cultivating spruce
lowkey these forestry plots with evenly spaced gigantic spruces are kinda eery but also so awe inspiring because spruce grows so fucking big
lowkey these forestry plots with evenly spaced gigantic spruces are kinda eery but also so awe inspiring because spruce grows so fucking big
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@coolbean aren't the maples that grow here kinda bad for wood?
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks probably at least not good for cultivation
theres cherry and stuff too, apparenty the wood from pear trees is pretty good too
theres cherry and stuff too, apparenty the wood from pear trees is pretty good too
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks yea thats part of why fender uses it its like the hardwood that was cheapest to acquire in their area iirc
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@coolbean yeah, all the trees we cultivate for fruit are decent but the wood temds to be somewhat expensive because they're not cultivated for it afaik
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks its all softwood its all softwood spruce is everywhere its all softwood
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks if i can get my hands on plum thats becoming a guitar neck and im 100% not painting it plum is so pretty
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@coolbean yep, apples and walnut are fine wood too i think
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks and like the whole neck. im using a sliver for the fretboard too
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@coolbean and everything we traditionally made bows of is actually only good for selfbows, what i wanted to build was bamboo hardwood laminate and you're limited to stuff that comes from america for some reason there. That's how i found out how amazing robinia is mechanically
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks honestly checking kleinanzeigen? plum seems really attainable actually its just not dried yet because plum is a bitch to dry so ill have to put a heavy finish on it once its done but its so pretty i need to
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks like 25 bucks for some freshly sawn sheets with the bark still on em and shit. 6 bucks shipping but its in the same region as me so picking up in person might be possible too
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@coolbean was about to say you should look up how to dry it if you wanna buy fresh logs but seems you already do.
Complete logs are prob best if you want really high quality wood tbh since most commercial wood is dried badly and has cracks everywhere or cut in whatever way it fit in the machine
Complete logs are prob best if you want really high quality wood tbh since most commercial wood is dried badly and has cracks everywhere or cut in whatever way it fit in the machine
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks well ordinarily just leaving it somewhere shielded from rain and stuff for a few months does the trick but having heard how difficult it is to dry im thinking that behind our fireplace might be preferable. just leave the stuff sitting there til next year while i practice on lesser woods lol
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@coolbean somw woods need to be dried fast, some super slow. Iirc some you even want to wax over the cuts so it dries as slow as possible
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks yknow i shouldve expected that it needs super slow
recommended approach ive seen is seal the endgrain with paint or whatever and leave it sitting somewhere for 1-2 years
recommended approach ive seen is seal the endgrain with paint or whatever and leave it sitting somewhere for 1-2 years
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@sal @snacks no i just really want to do woodworking and specifically instrument-making and im not entirely convinced that the exotic woods from south america, africa and india commonly used in instruments are grown sustainably and ethically (and in any case i find shipping lumber for thousands of kilometers kind of weird and wasteful)
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