This was in my news feed this morning - old news used as a filler. I wonder how soon it will reach the luthier market...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu9m7rGGYM8
A longer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKm0eRfFFfo
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
This was in my news feed this morning - old news used as a filler. I wonder how soon it will reach the luthier market... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu9m7rGGYM8 A longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKm0eRfFFfo |
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| Author: | Mike OMelia [ Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
Its a shame it hasn't been protected yet. |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
Left in the ocean it will gradually deteriorate and be lost also. Removing part of it and preserving it in a museum might be a way to "have your cake and eat it too". |
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| Author: | A.Hix [ Fri Sep 04, 2020 10:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
That isn't fossilized... fossilization takes millions of years.. That is just very old wood. |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Sat Sep 05, 2020 7:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
A.Hix wrote: That isn't fossilized... fossilization takes millions of years.. That is just very old wood. Hi Aaron, It was in the title of the article and the popular media. Fossilized Mammoth ivory is another misnomer. Some of it has become mineralized and the minerals have colored the ivory and changed it's appearance. Still, it is some very old wood. If it was truly fossilized it would be much less interesting, and might wind up in someone's coal stove. |
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| Author: | TimAllen [ Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
Sometimes I think of posting something, but when I think of the possibility that someone may critique my post I become petrified. |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
Tim, I don't worry about the critics, I just "Rock On".... 
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| Author: | gregorio [ Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 60000 year old fossilized cypress |
interesting link, thanks clay. |
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