Gibson article on BBC website today

While reading the BBC news website this morning, I saw this article. I’m not making any judgements, just thought it was interesting.

PS: I’m a Tele player


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15268169

Totally straw man, since the argument is semantics (veneer vs un/finished wood products). So far as I understand, the second raid had nothing to do about illegal logging or species.

The author's got his head up his arse.

Never really dug the Les Paul/Gibson bling. Wonder what one would look like with US grown woods.

Totally straw man, since the argument is semantics (veneer vs un/finished wood products). So far as I understand, the second raid had nothing to do about illegal logging or species.

The author's got his head up his arse.According to a federal affidavit, the wood was brought into the US under a tariff code that made it illegal to export from India - thus violating the Lacey Act.

Henry Juszkiewicz insists the wood is from a sustainable source, and the dispute is really over tariff coding.

Even supporters of the Lacey Act admit compliance is a tricky and subjective business.

...Scott Paul, director of forest campaigns for Greenpeace USA [says that] ...despite the criminal probe, there is "no suggestion that the Indian wood was cut illegally,"... Instead the debate rests - as Henry Juszkiewicz contends - on the tariff coding...

The 2009 Gibson raid, though, could have more serious repercussions. In that case the firm is suspected of knowingly importing wood from Madagascar that was cut illegally.Hm. Looks like the article covers your points, and I didn't see the author making any arguments of his own.

Wonder what one would look like with US grown woods.

I would also like to see what that would look like.

They used maple necks in the past and I think that they are more stable and resilient then mahogany ones. The caps could stay maple of course. I wonder what they could use as a US rosewood/ebony substitute?

If I was Henry...and I'm obviously not-I would go after the government tooth and nail with the best attorneys I could find. And I'd do what he's already done' turn it into a cause celebre and a political issue.

I'm usually not in line with radical Republican thinking at all, but this time, I agree that the US government ought to spend their time doing more positive things than busting Gibson.

I would also like to see what that would look like.

They used maple necks in the past and I think that they are more stable and resilient then mahogany ones. The caps could stay maple of course. I wonder what they could use as a US rosewood/ebony substitute?

I find this interesting too, I believe somebody mentioned locust in another thread for fretboard but I might have that wrong.

Black locust , persimmon and hickory are amongst the domestic woods that are well suited to use as a fretboard . There are others . I know of the use of walnut , cherry and others that have been used by some very respectable luthiers .