[Boatanchors] And Now for Something Competely Different: Zenith

[Joe Connor]

Bry:

    A lot of the exotic tonewoods are now protected by international treaties and several instrument makers have gotten jacked up for illegally importing these woods. 

    To me, as a guitar and banjo player, this wood stuff is as crazy as audiophoolery. Guitar players will play unbelievable premiums for guitars with Brazilian rosewood backs and sides. I doubt, however, that anyone can really tell the difference between a guitar with Brazilian rosewood and one with East Indian rosewood. Nevertheless, these guys believe Brazilian rosewood sounds better just like the audiophooles believe that Black Beauties sound better. Go figure.

                              Joe Connor



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> From: Bry Carling <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
>To: "jfor at quikus.com" <jfor at quikus.com>; Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>; Joe Connor <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "boatanchors at mailman.qth.net" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> 
>Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 7:58 AM
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] And Now for Something Competely Different: Zenith
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>Joe - maybe they are trying to pay off a fine for illegally importing woods.  I think I may hev
read something about that anyway - grin!
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>On 30 Mar 2013 at 17:32, Joe Connor wrote:
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>> Speaking of old capacitors, here's something that you sort of have
>> to see to believe:
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>> >http://store.gibson.com/capacitors/
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>> >Bear in mind, that this is Gibson (the major guitar company)
>> selling these. It's not some fly-by-night outfit. Look at the price
>> for two of them. I believe this is simply a modern capacitor with a
>> shell designed to make it look like a black beauty.
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>> >These caps are .022. My recollection is that an SP-600 (at least
>> any early one) has about 60 .022 caps.. A quick calculation shows
>> that you can replace them with these nifty Gibson reissue caps for
>> the bargain price of  $3.899.70. Sign me up!
>> >
>> >
>> >                             Joe Connor
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