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cb606dcd | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0af78396 

Maybe I'm just too nostalgic but I love older "artifacts" like this from decades past. Simple and eloquent 

The styles, the real wood. Even with a bit of modern tech splashed into it would sit right with me.

I wonder if their would be a market demand for quality reproductions of this stuff. It would cost quite a bit to make these days. Just fun to think about.

I'm starting to get offended by the "modern" styles which are everywhere and you can't avoid it. Ugly shit everywhere.
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DrFell (Disgruntled Citizen) | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @d6893fea 
The real timber is indeed a valuable , rare thing. Makes me question previous remarks I made. Everything was real
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DrFell (Disgruntled Citizen) | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @d6893fea 
it's hard to say if there could be a market,  All-in -all, prime woods are difficult to find now I imagine due to wild fires.
 There is a limit I know of in the guitar industry on the fretboards notoriously made of Rosewood, and that is a thin sheet. 
 I can foresee plenty woods being overpriced nowadays simply based on scarcity. 
They make items made of reclaimed woods, burnt timber treating them as they are special because they were previously destroyed, but salvaged in some way.
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cb606dcd | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0af78396 

My cousin got into wood working years ago. He was finding real wood furniture at garage sells and estate sells made decades ago that were painted over multiple times as they passed through generations and fads/styles changed.

He was snatching them up and stripping them and dimensioning them out into stock for his projects. Building new furniture.

It's amazing what people would paint over. Wood lovers have heart attacks over those finds.