It's relatively easy for Taylor Guitars to comply because we are a business and we deal in new guitars. One small piece of rosewood on the guitar makes it a CITES-controlled product, forever. As the CITES rosewood regulation is currently written, it criminalizes people who have no idea or even the ability to know about the legality of a certain guitar.
It's just as illegal for a person with a 20-year-old guitar to sell it across a border without all the proof and paperwork as it is for Taylor Guitars to do so with a new guitar.
This doesn't happen with flooring, or even most furniture, for example. In today's world, individuals sell used guitars all day every day, often across borders. In that time, those guitars will have many owners. That is a false idea, because guitars are durable and last for a century or more. "People think that the 'guitar business' is conducted only by corporations. "It's affected the guitar business in a negative way," Bob Taylor, the founder and CEO of Taylor Guitars, says. That isn't the case if you want to sell a guitar, even if you're selling a used instrument. I've got this really beautiful stuff that has this really interesting performance characteristic to it." What I have is pine, and because it's so damn old, it's much more similar to ash, almost to maple, than pine you would typically expect to see in 2017. The reason that matters is that the growth rings you get from the old growth forests are much tighter than the growth rings you get from a modern forest. They are fighting for sunlight and grow in a context of scarcity of natural resources. In the old forests, every tree is competing with every other tree. You're going to trim them so they don't have any knots in them.
WHAT CAN THE PARTS OF THE GUITAR BE RECYCLED FULL
You're going to hit them full of fertilizers to make them grow straight. Typically, if you're trying to produce a two-by-four to sell at Lowe's or Home Depot, you're going to use trees that are spaced out a certain distance to maximize light and rainfall. What I discovered, which was really thrilling, is that the pine that comes out of houses that were built between 18 is generally pine that was grown in old-growth forests and it's very different from pine that is grown in modern forests. I didn't know if it was going to work-so we spent a lot of time prototyping-because pine has different characteristics from swamp ash, maple, or anything you traditionally make a guitar out of. I knew that if I could turn a pine two-by-four into a great guitar, I would have a supply that would last a very long time. "There are 60,000 vacant properties in Detroit and most of them have pine in the joist. The most plentiful species of wood found in old Detroit houses, other than oak, is old-growth pine. As an incentive, those who join the program earn points for recycling that can be used toward new strings or gear. "It has material value and local recycling programs actually give money for that."ĭ'Addario recently made string recycling easier for guitar players, with their Playback program, which allows players to drop off unwanted strings at more than 400 music retail spots around the U.S., including all Guitar Center locations. "Anything with metal in it should be recycled," Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University says. What should you do with your old strings? Should you throw them in the trash? Most players change their strings on a regular basis. They wear out, break, or get crusty and gross, and at some point, you must change them. Those metals include steel, nickel, cobalt, bronze, and various other alloys.īut guitar strings don't last forever. Strings Electric guitar strings are made from different types of metal and that's true for most acoustic guitar strings, too (with the obvious exception of nylon).
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