Dear Luciano & others My comment by no means intended to suggest that all wood from Brazil was illegally obtained by luthiers. If my last E-mail read like this then I certainly need to make this clear. Like I expressed broadly before, I'm sure most luthier's are honest, hard working craftsman trying to make something beautiful within appropriate ethical practices. But I do wonder how one can guage exactly where timbers have come from? and indeed whether - unabiguiously, this wood has been harvest based on ecological sustainable practises - therefore legal? Michael Stitt
Luciano Faria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Michael, I'm a brazilian lute maker and I have hundreds of sets of Brazilian = rosewood, King wood, tulip wood and many other tropical hardwoods. ALL = my wood has been sawned from dead trees and this is a legal and = certified source of wood. I know a lot of instrument makers here and = almost all rosewood in their stocks came from dead trees or recicled = furniture. There are hundreds of dead logs being certified each year and = this is more than sufficient for instrument making around the world.=20 Best, Luciano Faria -- --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing --
