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Re: Curing Process

9/14/1999 4:24 AM
Hi	Re: Curing Process When I was young ("when dinosaurs ruled the earth...) everyone believed wood for guitars had to be air-dried for 20 years at least... I think the great lumber shortage for guitars between '65 and '80 proved that standard kiln drying for a year is plenty fine. It's true that 20 or 30 years old mahogany has a little mellower tone than one year old kiln-dried wood, but there have been a LOT of great guitars, even classical and auditorium sized ones, made with fairly new wood over the last 20 years. Hi

9/14/1999 4:24 AM

Re: Curing Process

When I was young ("when dinosaurs ruled the earth...) everyone believed wood for guitars had to be air-dried for 20 years at least... I think the great lumber shortage for guitars between '65 and '80 proved that standard kiln drying for a year is plenty fine. It's true that 20 or 30 years old mahogany has a little mellower tone than one year old kiln-dried wood, but there have been a LOT of great guitars, even classical and auditorium sized ones, made with fairly new wood over the last 20 years.

Hi

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