An FYI about these blue boards.
It started with the ancient sitka. The blue boards from the 3000 yr old buried sitka log, that became very sought after and expensive.. $5000for a dreadnought top at the end.
These are only a few decades old, but nobody’s building log floats anymore. We have 1000’s of bdft of float log that we’ve salvaged. Very high defect log, from toredo mollusk damage, rot, breakage and other. But enough good wood that makes it profitable to put the labor in for recovery, and dealing with all the waste.
To put into perspective the rarity of “blue boards”, they only come from a small spot in a log, close to the iron, if theres not a knot, or breakage , or rot or or or. And out of 25,000 tops produced, our average yearly production, from just float log, we may get 100 blue guitar tops that are usable.
So these are soundboards with a story and the staining Color as evidence to support the story.
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