Seasoning wood: was facts and not facts : was Recommend Rebuilder?

[paul bruesch]

This thread reminded me of a sequence of news articles a few years ago...
about trees that had been discovered after many years in Lake Superior, and
how violin makers wanted them desperately.  I googled <<trees "lake
superior" violin>> and came up with some relevant hits:
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1998/04/02/59.asp
http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Nov00/2272.html

On 3/23/07, RicB <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote:
>
> Terry
>
> I've seen pictures of masses of sikta logs soaking in salt water for
> long periods of time. Yamaha I think I remember had these pics in one of
> their marketing thingys I ran into once.  Cant quite remember what the
> bit about salt water was... but I remember running into this again in a
> paper about piano building in the 1850's..
>
> Perhaps you know something about why logs would be soaked in sea water
> for a while before drying ?
>
> Cheers
> Ricb
>
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