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Originally Posted by Ukena
However, I think it's pretty safe to say a 3 degree temperature increase wouldn't and didn't matter much to ash borers and elm beetles attaching themselves to these ships and cargo.
And any temperature increase isn't mattering much now either as invasive species are still attaching themselves to ships - (Asian carp in the Great Lakes).
Just MHO
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04-23-2020 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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Originally Posted by Dennis D
“For mountain pine beetle, which is the most damaging of the bark beetle species in western North America, we expect warming to reduce beetle mortality during wintertime,” Hicke says.
Warming also speeds up the development of insects so that more generations of the beetles can be born each year. And like something out of a horror movie, when more beetles emerge at the same time, they can mount mass attacks that overwhelm a tree’s natural defenses.
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Originally Posted by Dennis D
But I always wonder when people imply things like 3 degrees is not much temperature increase, what their intuition about the workings of climate and ecosystem is based on. Like how much would be too much? 70? Is that because it feels too hot to touch?
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Whatever the worldwide temperature may or may not be, and my admittedly incorrect 3 degree reference, my point was and is that attaching Dutch Elm and Ash extinction to the concept of global warming is a fallacy. The borers and mites that have wiped out the NA Elm and Ash are not native to NA, and if they'd been contained at the point of origin, ( regardless of the temperature at that location) would not have done the damage they've done.
So how'd they get here ? The same way the Asian carp are getting here now.
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Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
Last edited by Sam Sherry; 04-23-2020 at 04:13 PM.
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Originally Posted by Sam Sherry
I tried using one for a while. They play great, sound great, but I just could not hold onto it. And my right sleeve would catch on those controls on the lower bout.
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I dunno. Pretty happy with my carbon fiber electric. I’d take it over any 330 or Casino any day. But that’s the advantage of rolling your own. The specs I want. 4lbs, 25” scale, compound radius, 1-3/4” nut.
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PS: The atmosphere is more akin to a pot of boiling water. Turn up the heat and a boiling pot stays the same temperature but becomes more violent.
The analogy is not perfect. The atmosphere does warm some, but the vast majority of the energy goes into “bubbles” of drought, flooding rains, hurricanes and tornadoes. But because of that, the amount of energy needed to raise the atmosphere 3 degrees is staggering.
It would take roughly 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules to raise the atmosphere by 3 degrees. That is the equivalent of roughly 4,000,000 nuclear explosions a year, or about 8 every minute of the day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
So, yeah. 3 degrees would be cataclysmic. If scientist had expressed global climate change in terms of nuclear bombs instead of degrees, maybe we wouldn’t still have people thinking it’s no big deal.
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
And those specs work for me. Love the headstock logo, too.
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unfortunately carbon fiber is an oil derived byproduct, that is not biodegradable or easy to break down...it carries a huge environmental impact...
natures wood on the other hand...
cheers
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
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Originally Posted by neatomic
John
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Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
CF is not abrasion resistant. I can only imagine that Emerald protects their fretboards under a coat of hard epoxy, but I don’t know. Saturated fiber is euphemistically said to “sand well”, which in my experience means it disintegrates like an 8 year old bully who gets a punch in the nose.
Second is that I don’t like the feel of CF on playing surfaces. I don’t like a glossy poly finish on necks for the same reason. So no CF neck for me. I’ve never played a CF fingerboard, but the idea of a thick epoxy gloss fingerboard does not appeal to me either.
So, for now, I use traditional neck construction. Usually maple, but I like cherry too. I’ve used sycamore and like the look A LOT, but it isn’t very dent resistant.
I am considering making a neck that is mostly hollowed out with CF on the inside. Super rigid and light but with the feel of wood under your hand. There was a luthier named Bob Garish who posted some necks he did that way. I think Ken Parker does something similar. It’ll probably take a few before I dial that in. With all this lockdown business, I’m back to indulging in extreme experiments. :-D
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Originally Posted by neatomic
I don’t know how much fossil fuels it takes to cut a tree down in Canada, ship it hundreds of miles to a mill, ship that thousands of miles to Southern California, only to have me drive a truck 20 miles to get a rough milled stick or two. But my guess is that there is more fossil fuel in that than making 500g of Carbon Fiber and shipping it to me.
Still, no one is arguing this is a green object. The CF is encased in fossil fuel resin to give it rigidity and the whole guitar was sprayed a thin layer of nitrocellulose lacquer. It’s not radio active, but it ain’t an Earth Day tribute either.
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
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always befuddled by these all or nothing responses...
as i writ above i'm in favor of alternate sustainable woods...which are available!!!...paulownia wood has been used in japanese furniture making and instrument making for centuries is fast growing (grows 7 feet in a year) and sustainable...as are xmas pine and fir tree plantations!!!..hemp!!...etc etc
& in the long run they return to dust
carbon fiber will not!!
i have seen century old violins up close...no problems...but a guitar made in the 1950's with plastic binding or celluloid pickguards gassing wreak all sorts of havoc!!
don't confuse the method of extraction with the product itself
wood has been used by man since time immemorial...we are buried in wooden caskets! ashes to ashes
oil and its byproducts are a relatively recent development by compare..and have caused far far more devastation
lastly, the amazon is not being decimated for its trees..its being cleared to graze cattle!!!..for hamburgers!
cheers
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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look into paulownia...kiri..empress wood...all names for same wood...used traditionally in japanese furniture & koto(harp) making..extremely bug and mold resistant...it's said that items stored in kiri wood tansu's (cabinets) would last despite whatever conditions existed outside...extremely high burning point as well..a great wood.. and light as a feather...like balsa...
but relatively unknown...some cheaper guitar bodies are currently made of it...but nothing to really show it's attributes!
cheers
ps- one of the traditional ways to finish kiri wood kotos was to seal it with a hot flat iron...it sealed and brought out the wood grain patterns at the same time!!!..there's much we can still learn from the old masters!
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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funny you should mention...but i just yesterday watched film about carmine street nyc -rick kelly guitars, who i knew & respected...his specialty is using reclaimed woods from old nyc landmark buildings...so he has chelsea hotel guitars..and old roaring 20's speakeasy guitars and mcsorleys bar guitars...all with old old reclaimed wood...in older days he'd sand it pretty clean...but these days he just leaves all the imperfections and artifacts..pretty cool
at one point in film (which is worth seeing) he's asked what type of fretboard he prefers..and he says rosewood (my fave as well) and he said, ebony fretboard being a harder wood reacts to temp changes with maple neck differently than rosewood..and causes havoc..i totally get it...so perhaps there's more to your neck problems than meets the eye..reconsider!!
coastal bay area can get 30 degree daily temp changes regularly... always with trussrod wrench in hand!!! haha
kelly-mcsorley wainscotting guitar-
cheers
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Originally Posted by neatomic
John
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Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
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Eh, there are a gagillion ash teles and strats in this world. Anybody who really wants one can find one.
That will be true for the foreseeable future.
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