Chickering Grand Features/old vs. new wood

[Ron Nossaman]

> --- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>>> Antique wood. Yeah, what a hoot. 

Accurate and informed as always, I see. Look again.


>     P.S.  Please enlighten all the unfortunate souls
> who are paying pay top dollar for 500 year old church
> beams to make violins from, that they're wasting their
> money. I'm sure they'll be grateful!

What, and screw up a good thing? The alleged folks selling the 
alleged beams from the alleged churches are quite thrilled to 
take the money of the alleged folks buying these alleged 
beams, and the alleged buyers get an appropriately expensive 
warm and fuzzy belief to take home in their 50' trailers. 
Sounds like a match made in heaven to me. By the way, who are 
all these violin builders using old church beams in their 
products? I don't recall seeing this advertised anywhere, and 
that's surely something worthy of pumping up the marketing 
volume on if any of them have produced anything sounding 
anything like a violin.

Ron N