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 Post subject: Re: Moon Spruce Supplier
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:46 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Moon Spruce Supplier
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:49 pm 
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Mike_P wrote:
jfmckenna wrote:
But the wood from Home Depot is indeed spruce that is perfectly suited for bracing. That is a fact. Moon Spruce on the other hand falls into a belief system and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that but that is what it is. People believe all kinds of things like little green men have visited us even though they would have had to time travel in order to do so :D


some of the spruce at Hell Depot can be pretty good at times you just have to sort through it all...

I completely fail to see what temporal displacement has to do with aliens...if they have been here, technology beyond what we have would be required whether it simply be big ships and multi-generational travel times or some type of FTL propulsion...



I thought the answer to the question of how the aliens got here was "row v. wade" ?



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 Post subject: Re: Moon Spruce Supplier
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It really is just science...

As common musical instrument-focused sawyer's knowledge holds, felling near the full moon assures that the tree's dryad stands the highest chance possible of being trapped within as the trunk is severed from root. As the dryad is present from the very first moment of germination, entry and exit from her host tree is at that spiritually rooted site from just above the common height of the felling cut (see the attached by Evelyn De Morgan illustrating this phenomenon). As a dryad receives most of her nourishment from the salubrious effects of moonlight falling on the upper branches and leaves of the host tree, felling under a full moon or shortly thereafter ensures the highest likelihood that the hopefully sated creature will not be successful in exiting the host until it is too late to effect an escape. This ensures the dryad's prolonged, piteous death shrieks act to condition the timber in the pitches associated with dryad speech and song (~200 - 450 Hz).

Obviously, the hearing protection worn by sawyers in the practice of their trade serves a dual purpose in protecting them both from the mundane noise associated with modern forestry equipment, as well as the near deafening shrieks of the trapped and dying wood spirit entombed in the felled tree. We as luthiers hear the merest echo of those death cries as we work that timber, but know that as time passes, the residual, often inharmonious essence of the dryad will fade from her murdered tree, leaving just the beneficial, sonic enrichments as a lasting legacy of the wood spirit's final moments.

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 Post subject: Re: Moon Spruce Supplier
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Woody, that's the best explanation I've heard so far.

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Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.



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Oh, well, in that case, I stand corrected. ;-)


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So when we pass along the Moon spruce with the entombed wood spirits corpse to our children, they can have that much coveted "heir dryad lumber".... bliss



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Like Pat Foster, I too have a fair number of Lutz tops with funny names, only I paid a fair bit for mine. Regardless of Mario's image, they are some of the best tops I have. Ditto for Shane's tops and bracewood. I haven't yet tried Moon Spruce.



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 Post subject: Re: Moon Spruce Supplier
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Colin North wrote:
Woody, that's the best explanation I've heard so far.


Well, a lumberjack, in the hills of Virginia, thought it was a lot simpler than that. He was convinced that moon spruce meant that he had to moon the tree, just before he cut it down. He is in the hospital, recovering from urushiol temeritas in fissur.


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