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Thanks Charlie. As too the Sitka vs Lutz, there is still A LOT more Sitka than Lutz. Sitka has a much larger range than Lutz does, but I do agree, it is only old growth wood that result in the quality we see today, and, unfortunatly, although trees are a renewable resource, human nature ensures that old growth forests are not. So this wood does have a limited availability and over the next 20 years we will indeed see good spruce more difficult to acquire, I predict. My personal stash will remain growing. I keep a lot of the sets that I would just not feel comfortable selling as it would take some good planning and different size and shape guitars to get around an 'issue' in some of the tops, but they are otherwise wonderful and I can't seem to just throw them into the fire!

Shane

Shane

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Hey Shane, maybe some of those off cut pieces you can put up on the Luthier's Auction site. Your going to get very full very soon and will have to be making a ton of guitars yourself.

The one thing that I sure hope doesn't happen to you is that you get so busy that you can't build for yourself.

All things in balance bud, and once again, Good on ya

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