That would be true to a point. Heart wood is denser than sap wood within the same tree. Crotch wood can and is usually heavily figured as well as burl wood. However; RT is essentially correct, if you were to harvest the usable wood from the branches of a particular tree the wood would be pretty consistent, it is when you start dealing with the trunk, the base of the tree and the major joints between trunk and branches, and major larger branches that the wood is likely to take on some of the above noted grain configurations. These kinds of things are great for making the backs of Lutes and other instruments but sound boards need very fine, straight and close grained wood. A research done recently on Stradivarius Violins has come to the conclusion that one of the contributing factors to the quality of these instruments is the use of Fir and Pine that had grown up and matured during the Mini-Ice Age. During this period, the exact dates I can not pull from the top of my head, caused the trees then living to grow very slowly. This causes the growth rings to be very close together as many as 220 rings across the face of one these violins.
Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Steel-string acoustic guitar glue. > > hmmmm... > > > > while i agree that branches of the same tree may differ slightly in > > terms of shape, number of leaves, etc., their similarities far outweigh > > their differences. > I'm sure Vance Wood would clarify this for us. > RT > > ______________ > Roman M. Turovsky > http://polyhymnion.org/swv > > >
