Rick Schmidlin
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I love the 1 3/4 and just want to know,go figure!
Brazilian Rosewood is not in short supply. The entire interior of Brazil has millions of Brazilian rosewood trees. What has happened is that the costs for that rosewood have gone up, starting in 1968 or so. This comes from the greed of the Brazilian government, and later on, the UN getting involved. There is more Brazilian rosewood cut to clear land for farming use than there ever was for furniture or guitar wood. The trees that are cut are burned. The clear cutting of the Brazilian rain forest by Brazilian citizens does not require any permits. or hava any restictions. The vast majority of Brazilian rosewood has been cut for this purpose, even though popular belief is that it is due to its use in furniture and musical instruments. Ask yourself the following question: Why is there so much Brazilian rosewood stump wood out there? What happened to the rest of the tree?
One fully grown Brazilian rosewood tree has enough wood to make hundreds, even thousands of guitar back and side wood sets. However, in order to get the wood out of the country, you need permits from the Brazilian government. This is very expensive, and where the Brazilian government gets revenue from.
When Brazil stopped allowing unlimited export of the wood in the mid '60's that created a shortage compared to demand at the time, which drove price up.Brazilian Rosewood is not in short supply. The entire interior of Brazil has millions of Brazilian rosewood trees. What has happened is that the costs for that rosewood have gone up, starting in 1968 or so. This comes from the greed of the Brazilian government, and later on, the UN getting involved.
That's correct, but the end result is that habitat is vastly diminished and in fact the species is endangered, from Wikipedia:There is more Brazilian rosewood cut to clear land for farming use than there ever was for furniture or guitar wood.
However, in order to get the wood out of the country, you need permits from the Brazilian government. This is very expensive, and where the Brazilian government gets revenue from.
It needs to be understood that there are different levels of trade control ("Appendixes") in the CITES listings, it is not a one-size fits all restriction on trade in species.Tropical Mahogany (Cuban, Honduras, etc.) is also on the CITES list.
Yes Woody it was all just a bad, bad dream.wow, i never knew but sort of suspected it was all a scam. such a bummer. imagine if Braz was as prevalent as hog or indian rosewood.