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TeleGeir · April 16th, 2003, 02:42 AM

Australian TDPRI'ers correct me here if I am way off, but:

A few years back I spent 3 weeks up in Yarra Valley, and on a market day they auctioned some of the most fantastic wood I have ever seen. So heavy they would use cranes to lift them off the truck. The way I was told the story was it is illegal to chop down any of these anymore, but there are quite a few to be found in lakes and rivers where the goldminers ditched them when making roads in the old days. So they had been lying there in water for a 100 years or more(?), but still looked absolutely fresh. I really wanted to buy a particularly nice one as a table top, but shipping it to Norway would have cost a bit...

It would have made a fantastic looking guitar top, but probably would have doubled the weight of the guitar...

Geir :)

April 16th, 2003, 02:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
TeleGeir Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 1,998	Speaking of Australian wood... Australian TDPRI'ers correct me here if I am way off, but: A few years back I spent 3 weeks up in Yarra Valley, and on a market day they auctioned some of the most fantastic wood I have ever seen. So heavy they would use cranes to lift them off the truck. The way I was told the story was it is illegal to chop down any of these anymore, but there are quite a few to be found in lakes and rivers where the goldminers ditched them when making roads in the old days. So they had been lying there in water for a 100 years or more(?), but still looked absolutely fresh. I really wanted to buy a particularly nice one as a table top, but shipping it to Norway would have cost a bit... It would have made a fantastic looking guitar top, but probably would have doubled the weight of the guitar... Geir :)