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Wow!(as I kick my guitar across the room)Fantastico!
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Mahogany from (THE TREE) can you guess the builder? This top will give it away.


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that guitar is too "famous" for one of your tests.

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That is sweet though. I wish I knew where to get some of those sets. Wow.

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LMI (had) some for sale a year or so ago, 700.00 per set.

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gee.. not much more than they want for the Sapele... What a bargain.   

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Too bad the Zootman couldnt get his hands on it, we'd all be able to afford it then!

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Next batch I get that looks like that will be $799 3 sets for $1500 and free shipping to boot. Now how can you beat that? I have that picture hanging in my shop.

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Here is another from "The Tree"! I built this one several years ago for a
terrific musician in Florida. The sound of THAT wood is outrageous!

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Beautiful Sylvan. Do you have a back shot?

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Bob -
Here is a back shot!

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Beautiful Sylvan. Nice neat shop too. Wish mine looked like that.

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Can someone please tell the story behind "The Tree"?

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JJ, My own opinion and that's all it is, is that they found this wood and it was curlier and prettier mahogany than anyone had seen at the time (BobC wasn't selling then) and hyped it up and called it the tree. I'm sure it's very noce wood though.

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Sounds like we may want to cherish our Waterfall Bubinga and Sapele. Decades from now everyone will be talking about the Zootman's primo find. I think I might store mine in the safe deposit box until I'm worthy to build something with it!

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I know I'm loosing pop culture points in guitardom but who is TR?
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Oh, forgot to say, Sylvan, beautiful work there. The wood is diserving of the craftsmanship.


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Good morning back at ya Lance. I'm glad you're up, it was getting lonely around here. I should have known TR.
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[QUOTE=JJ Donohue] Can someone please tell the story behind "The Tree"?[/QUOTE]

I don't have the exact details of this story, so my info might be a little wrong... but this is what I remember of the story.

A tree was cut many years ago in Costa Rico (60's) and it was in a difficult position to remove (across a ravine, or was that the LS redwood???) and was left there for many years. In the early 90s someone pulled it out with a helicopter and when they cut it open they found this fantastic quilt.

Wanna know the REALLY sad thing. I watch this show on DIY called "Wood Works" and the host David Marks has some of that wood (a big board of it) and he plans on cutting it into veneer for furniture.

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There was an article about "The Tree" in Fine Woodworking in the mid
'80s. Brock's account is substantially correct. I tried to find the article so I
could post the complete facts but struck out. But essentially what Brock
says is true except I believe the tree was in Belize. I have seen several of
the boards from the tree. The quality of the "turtle quilt" varies greatly fro
board to board. What LMI had several years ago was not even close to the
very best of that tree. TR had some years ago that was spectacular and he
made an archtop out of it (carved most of it away to waste!).

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