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Fillipo,

Kermode is Lutz, as Dave said. Mario lives only 30 or 40 miles away from me and our harvest areas overlap. Lutz is no different than any other spruce though in the regard that a good tree will result in good tops just as poor tree will only produce poor wood. Next is the attention paid to the processing of the wood. An unattentive processor can turn good wood into bad tops by introducing runout and cutting off quarter. The whole process is not rocket science but it does require paying attention to the details, once you understand what they are.

Anyway, Mario has access to good wood and has been doing this long enough that I would hope he has the processing figured out. I haven't seen any of his wood for a while now though. But he is certainly another (and probably only) Lutz option.

Shane

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Canada

[QUOTE=Don Williams] Colin, you really should give up the lower grade woods and use Sitka. It's the best there is.[/QUOTE]

Sitka is great stuff... I've been using if for bridges and necks and it works great!

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