Will an international decline in specialty timbers lead some of the world’s biggest guitar manufacturers to Tasmania to buy wood? Source: ABC
A feature length documentary screened in New York City last week focuses on the scarcity of specialty timbers for instrument making.
“Musicwood” follows Chris Martin (Martin guitars), Bob Taylor (Taylor guitars) and Dave Berryman (Gibson guitars), and the conflict associated with logging the Sitka Spruce tree in Alaska.
With the guitar industry at attention, Penny Terry asked Tasmanian timber supplier Bob MacMillian how important he thinks Tasmanian timbers could be for the international guitar manufacturing industry.
