On Fri, Nov 16, 2007, Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am > making a clearsach ... I can't use > the woods they used, I have no access to a log that has spent 200 years in a > peat bog.
perhaps not from a peat bog, but there is an ongoing market in wood salvaged from the depths of the great lakes, sunk enroute to the sawmill and left there for decades. Some nice big logs too, 24-30 inch wide willow is both rare and expensive these days. As I recall, the surviving clarsarchs are all wider than 13 inches. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
