Taylor Guitars: Spruce Pt. 1

Bob Taylor and a team from Pacific Rim Tonewoods brave the Alaskan wilderness in search of a fallen spruce tree. Witness how wood is flagged for tops and bracing, right on the forest floor.

[@MajorGRecording]

You can really appreciate the quality of tonewood being harvested when he hits the trunk and you get such a pleasant musical "thunk". Good stuff!

[@jamesdahl6949]

Sure makes you appreciate that guitar top a lot more than most people think about. Thanks for this video, everyone should see it!

[@pamtnman1515]

One of the most interesting wood videos I’ve seen. I always wondered about guitar wood, and here it is

[@jfan4reva]

Gotta love how easily this stuff splits. Small hammer and some wedges let you cut out what you want/need. Watching the guy tighten the rope with a hammer made me think 'ya, you don't want to lose any of the good stuff' and then 'ya, you don't want a 75 lb chunk of wood falling on your head'. For some reason the phrase 'cargo net' popped into my head....

[@abd-ix5qd]

I guess all guitar builders specially the big ones(e.g. martin, taylor, gibson,) should have tree planting project..

[@reinotessy785]

Need 100 years

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

well you guy`s are champion`s of good ! -- saving blown down trees for instrument and other things - with helicopter no log trucks = well done thank you !

[@boozoochavis7506]

For all of us guitar players who think we know where our resources are coming from - made my heart sink to see just how much wood was not good enough to make a guitar top or even braces from!! Hope somebody found good use for the rest of that wood even if just a warm fire later in the year?! 300 years to grow a top - WOW!

[@debussychopin2766]

All these videos by Taylor makes me want to just buy my guitar full price from now on.

[@cravinbob]

+Debussy Chopin Not necessary. Just buy quality and Taylor is not quality but thin tops that will split.

[@benlloyd3155]

+cravinbob Interesting. Never had that problem. But I keep everything humidified at 47.5% RH around the clock.

[@jamesdonalfaulkner]

+cravinbob
I have owned a number of Taylors; none have split and, indeed, although they would not be my personal, number-one favourite (I'm Irish and prefer Lowden for trad), I find them all to be astounding, And when you think about everything involved, surely they are good value for money.
Best wishes,
JDF

[@martijnvandenakker803]

+cravinbob taylor is indeed quality. But like any fine instrument, you have to take care for it, and don't abuse it

[@sinaTonewood]

the video entered me in tonewood supplying, thanks

[@georgenagy9766]

Incredible. .it's like an autopsy on a tree

[@Dev9172]

Thats a lot of really hard work

[@ElliotComposer]

Wow such beauty! To work with wood 360 yrs old much be amazing...

[@LJG781]

That was really interesting......

[@modelcitizen1977]

I can't believe how easily it splits.

[@purplepineapple117]

For the wood like red spruce that's becoming endangered they only take dead trees. Other rare woods like Brazilian or Madagascar ebony is now illegal.

[@guitpic1]

@johnmacward Years ago, when I flew on a Chinook, we would pick up Jeeps and you name it with just a hook. This looked like a breeze to me...no problems.

[@andrewbendahan1379]

Imagine if all that wood at 7:03 fell.

[@zachsmith3376]

Widow makers for sure

[@MrGuitarbike]

People say your guitar isn't vintage? Tell them it was made from 350 year old spruce blown down in a windstorm.

[@classifiedinfo9302]

I didn't expect the spruce is that easy to cut into small peaces

[@Patrick_B687-3]

+My Uncle... For free, hardly. I had no Idea, they got some of the spruce this way. Incredible.

[@Dev9172]

wow I did not know this . Very interesting . Thanks for posting . Did my GS Mini start out this way ?

[@taylor410ce]

Awesome!!!

[@zoemeow7677]

I bet is for the more pricey models lovely 🎶

[@NMranchhand]

A brilliant demonstration of how to split a tree trunk. A brilliant demonstration of how to perform a grossly unsafe helicopter lift.

[@yuzhang4937]

Excuse me. I need your help.please tell me.Where can I buy this knife?

[@slash2jimi]

6:42 hand hammer smack

[@WereRabbbit]

I agree, but these trees here had been trees that had fallen prior. They didn't cut them down.

[@bermudachicken1]

But it sounds like they fell because they had previously cleared away some of the surrounding trees which would have left them vulnerable to storms

[@jfan4reva]

Yeah, I'm sure they do know what they're doing. If they didn't, they wouldn't still be around to do it! I can understand that a choker is gonna be reliable when it's wrapped around a log, but if one piece falls out of that bundle, they all fall out. Scares the crap outta me, but then I'm not a logger....

[@MrGuitarbike]

I want their "scrap"!

[@szczerzo]

In 2017 you need to admire the grain

[@guitarboyZ94]

its like a gold mine in there, touching T_T

[@bamboosa]

Personally, I like knots on my gitties and I can't afford a Baby Taylor now I know why.

[@rawvocals4227]

They destroyed brazilian Rosewood like that

[@el34glo59]

Sap is never sound? All Addy and alpine uses sap

[@charliemaddock3459]

Like fuck those trees blew over 😏it’s like watching a documentary on the progression of mans ability to lie !!! Those trees were selected and lopped for our pleasure !! Accept it 😂I love my guitar and much appreciate their efforts 👏👏👏💪👌🤟🎶🎶

[@CascaydAzgard]

Why only 240p??

[@0chappell]

Basically they take spruce wood for free? Wow, if we could do it we would all be rich...

[@modelcitizen1977]

You think helicopters are free? You think the 200 man hours of labor required to turn that chunk of wood into a guitar are free? Come on.

[@0chappell]

I am talking about raw wood, not luthiers. And why helicopters? You can use a truck.

[@ikigai47]

No... you were ultimately talking about cost and implying since wood is free getting rich is easy. Someone corrected you and you back peddled. Well how do you get rich then paying for helicopters, man labor, trips to the Alaskan wilderness, etc? Derp

[@davehendricks7023]

Clearly he has a point if I get my raw materials for no cost then all the overhead from labor are negated to the min and then charging 5k for a guitar that believe it or not can be made in China by just as skilled a craftsman for 1/4 of the cost is the way to get rich I can assure you they don't go looking for the wood plenty of guys go out and do that already and the helicopter is far cheaper then it would be to truck any of it out of they didn't make a good chunk of money they wouldn't do it .

[@ayuwinata4755]

You can do it too bruh.. Fish in the ocean are free too.. Come and get it fool

[@pierrotgtlovers28]

arent these woods are illegal? do they plant them back again or something for the forest?

[@BobIGomez]

Hey that could be my spruce top ! lol
712-c #17059

[@back2thefutre]

I'm lady Gaga I think

[@rawvocals4227]

Shut..they are cutting these 300 yr old. Tree .the innocent tree😭

[@agusy8048]

No...they dont cut a living three, but dead three which fallen by it old or strom. You see the wood almost dry.

[@kenshiroxxx90]

high price of guitar with potato camera.

[@sedrickalcantara9588]

It was the 90’s, this was pretty decent for something handheld then