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Location: Jet City | Thought I'd share...
A couple of O's hangin out in front of one of the largest sitkas in the world. Photo is taken in the Olympic Rainforest
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Suddenly....
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | OK, then. THAT might keep Brother MWoody supplied awhile. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | :D |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I had no idea they grew that big! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | What a Sight !!.. goes fer them Git.`s as well .. |
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Location: SoCal | Let's go chop that puppy down and build us some guitars..... |
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Location: Eugene, OR | Wohhhhhhhhhh! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Like, "Tree-hug this, Bucko!" |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Let's go chop that puppy down and build us some guitars..... I think just a limb or two would do! :eek: |
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Location: Ontario Canada | If you go near that baby with a chain saw you would really be going out on a limb.
Thank you Damon67 for the picture. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Wow! I wonder how many guitar tops you could make with THAT one? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | measure twice, cut once. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Whoa!! |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | marketing spoo...
Gibson would cut it |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I knew Damon's skills dwarfed mine as a guitar player or photographer, but I thought at least I had a big tree.
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Reminds me of visiting Sequoia National Park when I was younger.
Amazing to stand near one of those big redwoods.
I didn't know Sitkas got that big though.
I know they sound good when made into CL's :
Actually I think my 88 Collectors is made of Sitka Spruce too. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | There is a 300' tall Sitka Spruce on Vancouver Island and the previous US Title holder "Klootchy" in Oregon succumbed to a Winter Storm in 2007.
picea sitchensis
Sitka spruce
Grows along the northwestern coast of the United States and Canada all the way up into Alaska.
Very good stiffness provides a strong fundamental to overtone ratio. Sitka will make for a guitar which can be played louder than Engelman without losing clarity. It is one of the most popular tonewoods for guitar top wood and is now the primary top wood for Martin. Although it an have a longer breakin time than other spruce Sitka is well worth the wait and at the end of it's breakin period the results can be quite a bit better than where it started. Sitka has a tendency to be more visually colored than other spruce.
And Mark,
Does size really matter?
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Location: Jet City | Um Mark...
Those guitars need to be sitting next to a graphite tree.
Woody, this one's over 270'. Here's what it said on the plaque in the Hoh Rainforest.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I didn't want to, and couldn't fit all my guitars in the back of the SUV, like someone I know. I guess I can do without all the rain and be satisfied with the Ponderosa Pine growing next to the cabin. The spruces aren't doing too well up there.
The deck is still waiting for a jam. |
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| The deck is still waiting for a jam.
That's because you never invited me.
I can play the Jim Croce stuff. Leastways my playing has been compared to that of a junkyard dog. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Hey, stranger, I've been inviting everyone for years, but all these Americans seem to think it's too far. If you need a special invitation, this is it, because I can't PM or email you. I'll even supply the Ute, so you don't have to worry about carrying yours on the plane. I could probably get you a job coaching a field goal kicker (American football) who seems to have a problem kicking from the left side. |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | Whatcha bet that tree touches Heaven. Beautiful! |
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Location: Ontario Canada | Originally posted by Nick B.:
Whatcha bet that tree touches Heaven. Beautiful! Almost Heaven,
West Virginia.
Nice slow melodies for my
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It appears we do have the largest Engelmann Spruce in the country, along with a couple of the largest pines. I'll go try to find them, so I can show them to schroeder when he comes to visit. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Jimbob:
Originally posted by Nick B.:
Whatcha bet that tree touches Heaven. Beautiful! Almost Heaven,
West Virginia.
Nice slow melodies for my
"wanna be a star" fingers. |
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| Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
It appears we do have the largest Engelmann Spruce in the country, along with a couple of the largest pines. I'll go try to find them, so I can show them to schroeder when he comes to visit. That would be very cool.
This has me thinking. |
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Location: closely held secret | No, you can't cut guitar-shaped slices out of them.
...wait a minute. Schroeder's coming to Idaho?? That's just a little too close for comfort. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Maybe I could stir up some interest with a link to the 1000 acre park next to the cabin. We're on John Alden road. I'm not sure the largest Englemann Spruce in the country is in the park, but it's on state land in that county, so it's likely. If my deck isn't good enough for a gig, I may be able to get the amphitheater in the park. I know it's not Amelia Island, Olympic National Park or even the Smoky Mountains and it's not easy to get to, but if it was easy to get to, it probably wouldn't be worth going.
Ponderosa Park
Zoom out a bit and you'll see a golf course a few blocks south of the cabin. No alligators, but I doubt anyone on this site has enough balls to play golf in the forest. Pun intended. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Engelmann Spruce are part of the family of giant North American coastal conifers that also include the great California redwoods and the incredible giant Sequoia trees. Sequoia National Park should be on everybody's must see places to visit. It has particularly meaningful memories for me because it was the very first (of many) national parks from which I was thrown out for obnoxiously loud motorcycle pipes. The year was 1969 and the bike was a 1967 BSA Thunderbolt. That was the same trip from which I had to return early to go to basic training while my riding buddies continued on to a little music festival in New York. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You can go there after you come to Idaho for a NW OFC gathering.
Actually, I need to get down there. Our daughter lives close. There are so many great driving vacations in this area that we haven't taken advantage of. That's one of the downsides to owning "vacation property". We have someplace to go and all I ever do is work on the place. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
The year was 1969 and the bike was a 1967 BSA Thunderbolt... I believe Hunter Thompson was riding one of those, about the same time, and roughly in the same place. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | More likely a chopped knuckle or panhead. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Damon67:
believe Hunter Thompson was riding one of those, about the same time, and roughly in the same place. Pure myth.
He was sitting in the corner of a local Denver bar drinking and doing psychedelics. |
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Solid Sitka Spruce...