New CITES Regulations For All Rosewood Species (http://verb.com/news/new-cites-regulations-for-all-rosewood-species)
This will be an enormous nuisance, especially for small builders. I predict a movement toward alternative species that aren't endangered by China's high end furniture market.
No worries, baked maple is just as good...right?
All I can suggest is, if you have instruments with Rosewood you should save the original receipts or any other documentation to make it possible to re-sell. OTOH, there's the option of not selling outside the US.
They banned mahogany, now they ban rosewood, maybe now is the time for a (headless) Tbird made completely of carbon fiber.
Mahogany isn't banned, there are restrictions on how much bigleaf (Honduras) mahogany can be harvested from its natural habitats. Most true mahogany used today is plantation-grown in Fiji and elsewhere.
This action on rosewood is a lot more severe.
I wonder if pau ferro trees will grow in Minnesota. ??? ;)
Interesting timing on today's e-mail - http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5187bff6d4eeb00cbbb9c3d63&id=3b9add0adf&e=4c67a227e5 (http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5187bff6d4eeb00cbbb9c3d63&id=3b9add0adf&e=4c67a227e5)
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Most of the 'mahogany' used these days is fake anyway, it's just an African species that vaguely resemble the real thing.
AFAIK there's nothing wrong with khaya, but it irritates me to see it called "African mahogany" or worse, yet, as just mahogany.
Hmm... I always assumed my Greco was something other than genuine mahogany.... Anybody know what they would have used?
How about the Bachbirds? What mahogany-like substance would they have been made from?Kahya, same as Lull TBirds.