Great story! I actually welled up a bit when Christine commented, "...and I'm very happy that this furniture has found a new home in the hands of a very able luthier!" and "I'm very happy it is now finding a new purpose being reused as musical instruments and I can't wait to see what Chris will make of it!!" Here here!! What a lovely lady and a wonderful find!! All the best to you Chris and Matt - I can't wait to see what you guys do with this either!! 💜
In the early 80s my brother built a house. He put in some nice hardwood a few years later. He picked out some Rosewood. The guy said you are lucky , you won't be able to get this stuff soon. He bought the last of this guys Brazilian rosewood..... yep. 3/4 inch 4 inch wide. All through his house. I had walked on it for years not realizing what it was. I gave him a real good idea what I all was worth.. he just chuckles... some very beautiful figuring too..
I have a Victorian-era Knabe upright grand (late 1880's) that is probably very similar to your Steinway. It weighs about 700 pounds; most of that is brass, but the Brazilian is SOLID and the soundboard is birdseye maple.
@@gui-texzan7477thats awesome, I thought soundboards were made from spruce? I make my bracing from old piano soundboards ( just the top of the line models)
I started playing guitar at 9 and bought my brand new, cherry red, LP Custom in 71 when I was 17. This was my 1st new guitar and I found out then that I needed to start a long term relationship (as a customer) with a luthier in San Jose CA. Their shop was called CB Perkins. It was owned and operated by an old man and either his son or grandson. Last time I went there the younger Perkins was still running the shop since the older fellow had passed on. They made all sorts of acoustic, wooden instruments, violins guitars, lutes, and others. The old guy was very proud of his shop and gave me the full tour. We'd often talk and I was amazed by their craftsmanship. All that to tell you his story about Brazilian Rosewood. It was shortly after I'd met him that he told me about this piece of wood that he was so excited about getting. This was probably mid to late 70's. But it was a huge chunk out of a tree, well over 12" diameter, possibly around 20". He told me all the tribulations he had getting that tree trunk. I thought he was getting some lumber, but no, this was a huge chunk of Brazilian Rosewood. I don't know when the sanctions on Brazilian Rosewood took place but all I know was he had a terrible time getting that hunk of wood. BTW - hiss granddaughter or niece would go to the beaches and find him abalone for insets. I always wanted one of their guitars but they were way out of my price range.
Excellent. You guys made a good decision and made this into a beautiful story and video. I bet that even the guy who made that beautiful furniture would be proud of what his work eventually would finish into.
Great story, guys. what an adventure! I kept waiting to see this beautiful furniture, but only got a high-speed glimpse at the end. 🤷🏻♂️ hopefully there will be more to come about the process of breaking it down. I’m not a luthier, but I do some woodworking, so it would be great to see your approach to the process of turning furniture back into lumber.
Today is my birthday and this video is one of the best gift I received today. Not only a wonderful story of Chris and Matt’s journey buying their gorgeous Brazilian rosewood but also knowing that I have found a reliable source to buy these spectacular wood. I’m currently making my first StewMac ukulele kit in my 7’x8’ plastic shed and my goal is to go up to building guitars and keep making them until I feel comfortable enough to make them out of BR and when it comes to my first BR set it’s gonna be from Driftwood (if still available). I’ll come back and keep this comment posted.
I'm Brazilian, and here we also repurpose wood, recovered from abandoned states, old furniture and so on. There is some legal suppliers of new wood, from reforestation. But generally, if you search for "Jacarandá da Bahia" in mercado livre (similar of ebay in Brazil) you will find lots of timber repurposed from "demolição" (demolished houses) and similar. But a warning: is illegal to export, even recovered / savage / repurposed, neither the timber nor the finished products.
Great story! To comment on your video suggestion at the end, I would love to see you guys going out on adventures and getting your hands on these woods. Getting the whole story on the pieces and then repurposing them into instruments gives those pieces a soul I think. Your client gets not just a hunk of wood made into the instrument of their choice but, they get a piece of history that they tell all of the people that see that instrument. This would have sat in someone's bedroom never to have been seen but by the folks that got it and kept it as a bedroom piece. I agree with Christine that it could not have gone anywhere better. Especially knowing the contentious background of her relationship. That wood has soaked up all that but, now it gets to live on as something better that brings joy to people. I think that rocks!
You guys are two legends!! Many people have made me want to make music but you are the first that have made me want to build my own acoustic guitar... Looking forward to future videos!!
This is a fascinating story, and how incredible to come upon such a great supply of wood for years and years to come. It's always a bit sad to destroy the old furniture, but it's not a waste, and I really appreciate that. As tempting as it would be to grab some of the wood, I'm way too amateur in building acoustic guitars to spend those dollars for the wood. Maybe someday I'll be good enough... Maybe. Anyway thanks for sharing this fascinating story.
So sorry to hear about your loss of gear. Matt you have probably already heard this but Anderson musical instrument insurance is who you need. I had my entire home ransacked. All of my gear, my Martin guitar and my recording equipment was taken. Now it is all insured for retail no matter where I am. The rate is not that bad. It’s 20k of gear for about $180 a year. Happy for you guys on the wood score, but best of luck on gear recovery!
Also I have acquired new and better gear and guitars since, but the loss still hurts. Little to no recovery of the highest dollar items. Not like the police are working very hard to find it…
When I went to college 1000 years ago (actually 1970) a friend cut up a huge old black walnut bed (circa 1840) into parts for a single bed for his apartment. He dimensioned all the parts for the new bed so that they could be resawed into guitar backs and sides.
I think your entire plan is fantastic. It's pretty clear that there are very few people interested in the furniture, and Caroline sounded thrilled with the intended purpose for it. The transformation into countless guitar sides and backs is a spectacular repurposing of the wood, and your plan to make some of the materials available to other luthiers incredibly gracious, regardless the asking price. Great story!
Awesome story! I'm just glad that no one busted into the van and stole the furniture. Matt, you handled the theft of your precious equipment like a boss! True testament to your character!
OK - Matt, sorry to hear about the pedalboard and cables. I'd be happy to help out on that as miniscule way to pay back some of the entertainment you guys provide me! Chris - congrats on the rosewood!
Such an awesome story. You got me looking online for Rosewood Furniture now. I'll have to get some of that from you for my guitar building. I just repurposed an old table for guitar bodies.
Great story ! Very interesting ! Yes ! Use recycled wood. I regularly check out the thrift shops I once found a solid acacia cabinet at a thrift store for $ 25.00. The top was 2 x 4 ft. and 1.5 in. thick. Another time I bought a live edge walnut bench for $25.00. The top itself was 18 in x 4 ft. and 4 in. thick. We had a clean sweep in our community and someone threw out 8 large boards of exotic wood (cocobolo, purpleheart , and Ziricote). They left it by the road to be picked up in the clean sweep so it was FREE ! I often find some nice maple wood at thrift shops If you look around, there is a lot of it out there. Be Well, DZ
You guys are awesome in the way you run your business and care about the resources you use. I love that you want people that buy the wood you are selling to share their stories. Good video.
Hay guys, I wish I would have known you were looking for Brazilian Rosewood. I have a garage attic full of the stuff I inherited 35 years ago that had sat in a barn for 100 years(crazy story). We had the movers haul it to (maybe I souldn't say) when we moved in 2004 when I finally realized what it was. So glad for your find. Well done!!!
Would really have liked to have seen some close-up shots of the wood. I hope you are making a video showing the inventory of wood and how you plan to cut it to get the maximum yield for instruments.
Great story guys. Congrats on your purchase. Can't wait to see the builds that come oujt of this ourchase. Am heading over to your website now to see the tonewoods.
i think this is awesome, hearing Cristine's story, the memories she has, respecting the craftmanship of the furniturure maker like you guys do, re using wood and create wonderfull guitars that give people joy. looking foreward to see some of them :)
I love your enthusiasm! But, much as I like the American expression "Holy Cow", I would have finished off the "September introduction" with "Holy Grail"! :-))
What a great story! Glad to see that you're now providing tonewood. I just bought some Ziricote a month or so ago, and would have happily bought one of your pieces instead. I did pick up a bridge blank, though -- I'll love the fact that it will be connected to this story and this history.
@@DriftwoodGuitars You ever think of putting a QR code in each guitar, next to the label? The link can then take the user to a page for that specific guitar, with any photos you have of the build process, your notes, etc. And in cases where there's a story behind the wood (this rosewood, the cocobolo, etc.) it can also link to the UA-cam vid. Would be interesting & useful for the original purchaser, and probably VERY useful for any future downstream owners.
What a trip! A little bit bummed you never show the furniture but I understand why.... I'm sure you will get plenty of hate if folks see the jaw dropping craftsmanship that certainly went into it's construction. All good though, you can't use furniture for anything but sitting around and sleeping! Besides the lively standing trees ware already repurposed long ago and I bet they weren't to happy about it at the time.
Thankyou for putting out this video it is a very good one and very educational. Can’t wait to see what you build with it. As far as the people that are upset about it. There’s nothing you can do about those people. Music is a beautiful beautiful thing and brings so much joy. What you’re doing with it would will bring more joy into this world than a bedroom set any day of the week. God bless you guys and your future endeavors. I’ll be watching
Was hoping for the grand reveal at the end showing the wood. 😮. Think what you’re doing is great, recycling and being good stewards of these natural materials.
So what you're saying, she's singing a new song and so will her bedroom set! I like dark wood furniture but I like Brazilian Rosewood on guitars better. And Jersey is NOT New York. Ferrys left Jersey City for NY. You're from South Jersey? Bergen County here. Now much farther west and north. Thanks
Wow, that was quite the saga! It great that the wood found its way to you, and that Christina is happy knowing that it will be used to make fine guitars, etc. Gains easily won, don't give us the emotional connection that can be as valuable as the object gained. Those pieces of wood will be reborn, yet carry the story of their long journey to where they will ultimately flower into something wonderful. I'm looking forward to seeing their transformation. Thanks
As we move forward, protecting the Old Growth forests are going to be paramount. That said, I LOVE old wood, and guitars! Reclaiming lumber is the way to go! There’s so much old wood out there. Refining it into beautiful instruments brings joy 🤩
I can’t think of a more nobler use of old furniture than making them into quality musical instruments. Instead of one person or one family enjoying the wood that barely anyone will see, it’ll be pride and joy of many people and many hours of use. Much better use than furniture.
What a great story. I've no problem with you using this to make beautiful heirloom-quality instruments. Far better this, than someone who doesn't realise what they have chopping it up for firewood when they want a more modern bedroom suite. You will be using it to bring pleasure to many owners and, if they are used for public performances, could bring pleasure to thousands. I have an inlay suggestion for a fretboard that tells the wood's story - make the position markers look like ornate drawers, with the pearl dots representing the handles. You could even bookmatch the veneer used for the drawer fronts.
I think before I would chop it up is to have it appraised first. Then if it’s worth substantially more than you paid for it figure how many guitars it would take to match that. May not be worth chopping up. There is always deals out there you found that one and I’m sure you’ll find more.
I could see people getting upset if you cut up fine furniture to make a shelf to hang on the wall, however making guitars out of it is awesome. I look forward to seeing how they turn out and would be interested in get in touch if you are will to let some go.
Cool video. I’m from North Carolina but lived in the Brazil the last 5 years. That wood is a dime a dozen here so it’s wild to hear how difficult it is to find there. And it’s so awesome she got the furniture here in Brazil (and called it by it’s actual name). Really cool video guys. Love your work.
I WANT IN!!!! Now that I’ve watched the entire video…. What an important story to tell. And it’s just as import to pass this story along to the owner of the instruments that will be created. I will be playing this during the rest of my lifetime, however, my son will one day be the custodian of this story, and this guitar, long after Brazilian rosewood will be gone.
Did she have any issue with you destroying the furniture to make guitars or did she view that as an even better use of the wood? -P. Well I guess I hear her say she knows what it is going to be used for.
Who cares if she did! Money talks B.S. walks once you purchase that thing that’s it. If she cared that much about it she wouldn’t sell it. Trust me, she can I have it shipped. It was clear that it wasn’t worth it for her to ship it. So at that point whatever happens to it isn’t her problem. If I’m buying or selling I don’t care it’s not my problem. Just like it isn’t hers.
There are a billion ways to make beautiful bedroom furniture with sustainable woods. An even more refined use for this wood is a move forward in art and music.
What an ironic story. I say ironic because just the other day my mother told me about my cousin (who lives in NJ) having a rosewood dining set that she's had in storage for 20 years and can't even give it away at this point. The style of the dining set doesn't match her new house, so she's looked into selling it. Turns out, she can't even give it away - not even through the Afghan relocation program because the government would rather waste money buy NEW furniture than get something nice for free. Whatever. Anyway, I told my mom to tell her to contact PRS or Martin to see if they could use it. So, your story has inspired me to look into this further for my cousin. I'm not sure if it's Brazilian Rosewood...but I guess I'll find out. Congrats on your discovery!
From the moment she said jacarandá, I could tell she lived here in Brazil. But being married to someone in the Brizola administration was a whole new level. She's practically a carioca.
I think this is fantastic! I think it's a much better use for the wood to make instruments isntead of what's basically something utilitarian. It doesn't matter what the furniture is made from, but it really matters what the instruments are made from
I have a solid brazilian rosewood victorian era table with carved feet and 3/4 inch top that my mom bought at an auction in the 1980's. I don't think 3/4 inch is thick enough to risk making a carved back for a d'angelico replica. And doing a carve and tap tooning a back - like D'aquisto's apprentist did - sounds risky anyway. And would it have great tonal qualities against a carved spruce top? Anyway, i ain't planning on cutting it up. It is quite a mesmerizing piece of antique furniture as it is. But i have shopped unsuccessfully on line for other solid brazilian furniture and old piano that had brazilian sound boards.
I dont get it why some people are getting mad about re-purposing that wood as if like its just gonna be wasted, btw!. Im so excited for you guys to make a beautiful guitar again been waiting for months now about the guitar building series! Good luck guys!
I got a solid Brazilian rosewood dining table with 5 leaves, 16 or 18 chairs, a china cabinet and a sideboard all for free. The table had about a 2 years' supply of old food dried onto it. The glass was broken out of the china cabinet. The sideboard top was also kind of yucky with dried on food & tobacco residue, but it is all solid Brazilian rosewood and it was 100% free. These were all FREE. The seller even delivered them, sort of. Before I could say yes or no, they had dumped this whole lot of very dirty furniture in my driveway and driven away. I have had to tell at least a dozen people outside the USA "NO", because I cannot or will not ship it outside the CONUS. There was so much wood we built a couple of solid body Telecaster style rosewood guitars. The rest was resawn into back & sides thicknesses on a DoAll bandsaw and made into everything from a uke & baby Size 4 up to jumbo acoustics. The AJ style is really nice.
Do you guys specialized in reclaimed wood? I’m new here, so forgive me if I don’t know what you’re all about but Woodcraft in Loveland, CO has a ton of Bolivian rosewood(as of a month ago when I last visited). I was very impressed with how it looked but it wasn’t what I needed for my projects so I didn’t investigate any further as to the quality. I don’t know how vast the difference is or whether their prices are fair but it might be worth checking out if you’re that crazy about it.
If you're interested in owning a piece of wood from this story, go check out our new tonewood website! www.driftwoodguitars.com/tonewood
It is perfectly fine re- purposing that furniture! You should make a line of guitars called "Christine " with a special design
Love that
This is a brilliant idea!!
Would love that
That is a great idea 👍✌
That’s a dope idea!!!
Great story! I actually welled up a bit when Christine commented, "...and I'm very happy that this furniture has found a new home in the hands of a very able luthier!" and "I'm very happy it is now finding a new purpose being reused as musical instruments and I can't wait to see what Chris will make of it!!" Here here!! What a lovely lady and a wonderful find!! All the best to you Chris and Matt - I can't wait to see what you guys do with this either!! 💜
I think the craftsmen who made this would very much be happy to see and hear this wood sing through the hands of another craftsman.
In the early 80s my brother built a house. He put in some nice hardwood a few years later. He picked out some Rosewood. The guy said you are lucky , you won't be able to get this stuff soon. He bought the last of this guys Brazilian rosewood..... yep.
3/4 inch 4 inch wide. All through his house. I had walked on it for years not realizing what it was.
I gave him a real good idea what I all was worth.. he just chuckles... some very beautiful figuring too..
I really love the way this story was edited and presented. Great work, Matt!
what a lady. and what a great story...
I'm a 74 year old guitarist, born and raised in Jersey City,NJ.
Great story guys! I would love to see some footage of you processing the pieces please
I have a Steinway vertical grand piano from 1871. SOLID rosewood everywhere, even what are basically beams along the base.
I have a Victorian-era Knabe upright grand (late 1880's) that is probably very similar to your Steinway. It weighs about 700 pounds; most of that is brass, but the Brazilian is SOLID and the soundboard is birdseye maple.
@@gui-texzan7477thats awesome, I thought soundboards were made from spruce? I make my bracing from old piano soundboards ( just the top of the line models)
I started playing guitar at 9 and bought my brand new, cherry red, LP Custom in 71 when I was 17. This was my 1st new guitar and I found out then that I needed to start a long term relationship (as a customer) with a luthier in San Jose CA. Their shop was called CB Perkins. It was owned and operated by an old man and either his son or grandson. Last time I went there the younger Perkins was still running the shop since the older fellow had passed on.
They made all sorts of acoustic, wooden instruments, violins guitars, lutes, and others. The old guy was very proud of his shop and gave me the full tour. We'd often talk and I was amazed by their craftsmanship.
All that to tell you his story about Brazilian Rosewood. It was shortly after I'd met him that he told me about this piece of wood that he was so excited about getting. This was probably mid to late 70's. But it was a huge chunk out of a tree, well over 12" diameter, possibly around 20". He told me all the tribulations he had getting that tree trunk. I thought he was getting some lumber, but no, this was a huge chunk of Brazilian Rosewood.
I don't know when the sanctions on Brazilian Rosewood took place but all I know was he had a terrible time getting that hunk of wood.
BTW - hiss granddaughter or niece would go to the beaches and find him abalone for insets. I always wanted one of their guitars but they were way out of my price range.
Heck yeah I'm so happy for y'all
can't wait to see the beautiful stuff you make with that!
Excellent. You guys made a good decision and made this into a beautiful story and video. I bet that even the guy who made that beautiful furniture would be proud of what his work eventually would finish into.
Great story, guys. what an adventure!
I kept waiting to see this beautiful furniture, but only got a high-speed glimpse at the end. 🤷🏻♂️ hopefully there will be more to come about the process of breaking it down. I’m not a luthier, but I do some woodworking, so it would be great to see your approach to the process of turning furniture back into lumber.
I am amazed at the reverence that you have for the craftsmanship that went into the source for your material. You two are a class act!
Today is my birthday and this video is one of the best gift I received today.
Not only a wonderful story of Chris and Matt’s journey buying their gorgeous Brazilian rosewood but also knowing that I have found a reliable source to buy these spectacular wood. I’m currently making my first StewMac ukulele kit in my 7’x8’ plastic shed and my goal is to go up to building guitars and keep making them until I feel comfortable enough to make them out of BR and when it comes to my first BR set it’s gonna be from Driftwood (if still available). I’ll come back and keep this comment posted.
Happy Birthday, and enjoy the build! We'll be here when you're ready.
@@DriftwoodGuitars thank you so much sir🙏🏻appreciate your reply and wish.
That’s so awesome. It’s so cool that you found that wood and can breathe new life into it.
I'm Brazilian, and here we also repurpose wood, recovered from abandoned states, old furniture and so on. There is some legal suppliers of new wood, from reforestation. But generally, if you search for "Jacarandá da Bahia" in mercado livre (similar of ebay in Brazil) you will find lots of timber repurposed from "demolição" (demolished houses) and similar.
But a warning: is illegal to export, even recovered / savage / repurposed, neither the timber nor the finished products.
Great story! To comment on your video suggestion at the end, I would love to see you guys going out on adventures and getting your hands on these woods. Getting the whole story on the pieces and then repurposing them into instruments gives those pieces a soul I think. Your client gets not just a hunk of wood made into the instrument of their choice but, they get a piece of history that they tell all of the people that see that instrument. This would have sat in someone's bedroom never to have been seen but by the folks that got it and kept it as a bedroom piece. I agree with Christine that it could not have gone anywhere better. Especially knowing the contentious background of her relationship. That wood has soaked up all that but, now it gets to live on as something better that brings joy to people. I think that rocks!
Congratulations!
"Were you ever in a situation where you know the deal is good but you don't have money?" Dude, this is a story of my entire guitar collection 😂
You guys are two legends!! Many people have made me want to make music but you are the first that have made me want to build my own acoustic guitar... Looking forward to future videos!!
This is a fascinating story, and how incredible to come upon such a great supply of wood for years and years to come.
It's always a bit sad to destroy the old furniture, but it's not a waste, and I really appreciate that.
As tempting as it would be to grab some of the wood, I'm way too amateur in building acoustic guitars to spend those dollars for the wood. Maybe someday I'll be good enough... Maybe.
Anyway thanks for sharing this fascinating story.
You lucky dog you. Just send some of that up my way. Good luck guys. Best tonewood in the world.
Seek and ye shall find! Congratulations! It’s awesome that this bedroom set will be making beautiful music in its future! Great job.
Could you make a video showing us the wood? I feel like we didn’t get enough shots of the furniture itself.
So sorry to hear about your loss of gear. Matt you have probably already heard this but Anderson musical instrument insurance is who you need. I had my entire home ransacked. All of my gear, my Martin guitar and my recording equipment was taken. Now it is all insured for retail no matter where I am. The rate is not that bad. It’s 20k of gear for about $180 a year. Happy for you guys on the wood score, but best of luck on gear recovery!
Also I have acquired new and better gear and guitars since, but the loss still hurts. Little to no recovery of the highest dollar items. Not like the police are working very hard to find it…
Really like the video.
You are giving this wood a second chance to be appreciated by sooooooooo many more people.
When I went to college 1000 years ago (actually 1970) a friend cut up a huge old black walnut bed (circa 1840) into parts for a single bed for his apartment. He dimensioned all the parts for the new bed so that they could be resawed into guitar backs and sides.
I think your entire plan is fantastic. It's pretty clear that there are very few people interested in the furniture, and Caroline sounded thrilled with the intended purpose for it. The transformation into countless guitar sides and backs is a spectacular repurposing of the wood, and your plan to make some of the materials available to other luthiers incredibly gracious, regardless the asking price. Great story!
Dang. Only a 10 sec clip of the wood. Was waiting to see it all
Exactly we found the motherload of Brazilian rosewood too bad you won't get to see it.. like I came to watch you eat popcorn...
I love you guys energy and all your content. My new favoritechannel by miles! Cheers from Sweden!
I think that repurposed things are cool. Like a buddy of mine had a huge kitchen table that was a barn door. I’m excited to see what you do with it.
What a great concept and well considered and appreciated. So cool of you guys to go this route. Makes me excited for future projects.
Thank you…
What an incredible story. Awesome job ya'll :D
Awesome story! I'm just glad that no one busted into the van and stole the furniture. Matt, you handled the theft of your precious equipment like a boss! True testament to your character!
OK - Matt, sorry to hear about the pedalboard and cables. I'd be happy to help out on that as miniscule way to pay back some of the entertainment you guys provide me! Chris - congrats on the rosewood!
Great storytelling on this one y’all! Stellar intro & loved the map animation. Glad you both survived Cracker Barrel and lived to tell the tale ;)
Such an awesome story. You got me looking online for Rosewood Furniture now.
I'll have to get some of that from you for my guitar building.
I just repurposed an old table for guitar bodies.
EXCELLENT vid man! I actually emailed you not long ago about possibly getting some of your woods. I am glad you are willing to share! Thanks fellas!
Really good guys, your videos are a joy to watch ✌🏼
Great video Chris & Matt
Great story ! Very interesting !
Yes ! Use recycled wood. I regularly check out the thrift shops
I once found a solid acacia cabinet at a thrift store for $ 25.00. The top was 2 x 4 ft. and 1.5 in. thick.
Another time I bought a live edge walnut bench for $25.00. The top itself was 18 in x 4 ft. and 4 in. thick.
We had a clean sweep in our community and someone threw out 8 large boards of exotic wood (cocobolo, purpleheart , and Ziricote). They left it by the road to be picked up in the clean sweep so it was FREE !
I often find some nice maple wood at thrift shops
If you look around, there is a lot of it out there.
Be Well, DZ
Awesome finds!
What an Awesome story!! Congrats ! I know that beautiful Rosewood will turn into some Glorious Guitars !!
You guys are awesome in the way you run your business and care about the resources you use. I love that you want people that buy the wood you are selling to share their stories. Good video.
That was an awesome video and story. Thank you!
Congratulations! That's pretty awesome.
Hay guys, I wish I would have known you were looking for Brazilian Rosewood. I have a garage attic full of the stuff I inherited 35 years ago that had sat in a barn for 100 years(crazy story). We had the movers haul it to (maybe I souldn't say) when we moved in 2004 when I finally realized what it was. So glad for your find. Well done!!!
Are you able to get any of that wood back ?
I need some for guitar building.
This really a life changing moment for driftwood guitars and a great story behind it all! Can’t wait to see the creations!
Very, very cool stuff guys!
Love you guys… the more you share…. Thanks!
Would really have liked to have seen some close-up shots of the wood. I hope you are making a video showing the inventory of wood and how you plan to cut it to get the maximum yield for instruments.
Holy cow. Congrats! I can't afford it at all right now... but I really want of your acoustics. Beautiful work 👍✨
Thank you for this video. It has inspired me to no end. You guys are incredible people.
Great story guys. Congrats on your purchase. Can't wait to see the builds that come oujt of this ourchase. Am heading over to your website now to see the tonewoods.
i think this is awesome, hearing Cristine's story, the memories she has, respecting the craftmanship of the furniturure maker like you guys do, re using wood and create wonderfull guitars that give people joy. looking foreward to see some of them :)
I love the tale...and well told!
I love your enthusiasm! But, much as I like the American expression "Holy Cow", I would have finished off the "September introduction" with "Holy Grail"! :-))
Awesome use for the furniture.. Great find..
What an incredible story. Regardless of how you feel about the label, you have become a true “content creator “…in a good way.
Great story! Do you have any photo's of the furniture you could share with us?
What a great story! Glad to see that you're now providing tonewood. I just bought some Ziricote a month or so ago, and would have happily bought one of your pieces instead. I did pick up a bridge blank, though -- I'll love the fact that it will be connected to this story and this history.
I just saw the order! Thanks for that. We’ll get it in the mail tomorrow for ya.
@@DriftwoodGuitars You ever think of putting a QR code in each guitar, next to the label? The link can then take the user to a page for that specific guitar, with any photos you have of the build process, your notes, etc. And in cases where there's a story behind the wood (this rosewood, the cocobolo, etc.) it can also link to the UA-cam vid. Would be interesting & useful for the original purchaser, and probably VERY useful for any future downstream owners.
That’s quite possible the best suggestion we’ve ever gotten on UA-cam. You sir, are a genius.
Awesome find. Congrats.
What a trip! A little bit bummed you never show the furniture but I understand why.... I'm sure you will get plenty of hate if folks see the jaw dropping craftsmanship that certainly went into it's construction. All good though, you can't use furniture for anything but sitting around and sleeping! Besides the lively standing trees ware already repurposed long ago and I bet they weren't to happy about it at the time.
Thankyou for putting out this video it is a very good one and very educational. Can’t wait to see what you build with it. As far as the people that are upset about it. There’s nothing you can do about those people. Music is a beautiful beautiful thing and brings so much joy. What you’re doing with it would will bring more joy into this world than a bedroom set any day of the week. God bless you guys and your future endeavors. I’ll be watching
There’s no better way to repurpose BR than making guitars! The wood will live on for generations. I need a BR OM28!
Was hoping for the grand reveal at the end showing the wood. 😮. Think what you’re doing is great, recycling and being good stewards of these natural materials.
Thank you for doing your part to save the planet.
So what you're saying, she's singing a new song and so will her bedroom set! I like dark wood furniture but I like Brazilian Rosewood on guitars better. And Jersey is NOT New York. Ferrys left Jersey City for NY. You're from South Jersey? Bergen County here. Now much farther west and north. Thanks
Just found this channel so amazing. Thank you guys and looking forward to watching all your content and learning more about guitar construction.
Wow, that was quite the saga! It great that the wood found its way to you, and that Christina is happy knowing that it will be used to make fine guitars, etc. Gains easily won, don't give us the emotional connection that can be as valuable as the object gained. Those pieces of wood will be reborn, yet carry the story of their long journey to where they will ultimately flower into something wonderful. I'm looking forward to seeing their transformation. Thanks
As we move forward, protecting the Old Growth forests are going to be paramount. That said, I LOVE old wood, and guitars! Reclaiming lumber is the way to go! There’s so much old wood out there. Refining it into beautiful instruments brings joy 🤩
I can’t think of a more nobler use of old furniture than making them into quality musical instruments. Instead of one person or one family enjoying the wood that barely anyone will see, it’ll be pride and joy of many people and many hours of use. Much better use than furniture.
Wow what an amazing story
What a great story. I've no problem with you using this to make beautiful heirloom-quality instruments. Far better this, than someone who doesn't realise what they have chopping it up for firewood when they want a more modern bedroom suite. You will be using it to bring pleasure to many owners and, if they are used for public performances, could bring pleasure to thousands.
I have an inlay suggestion for a fretboard that tells the wood's story - make the position markers look like ornate drawers, with the pearl dots representing the handles. You could even bookmatch the veneer used for the drawer fronts.
I think before I would chop it up is to have it appraised first. Then if it’s worth substantially more than you paid for it figure how many guitars it would take to match that. May not be worth chopping up. There is always deals out there you found that one and I’m sure you’ll find more.
Has there been any update on this? This is a great story, would love to see you using the wood in the workshop.
I could see people getting upset if you cut up fine furniture to make a shelf to hang on the wall, however making guitars out of it is awesome. I look forward to seeing how they turn out and would be interested in get in touch if you are will to let some go.
Cool video. I’m from North Carolina but lived in the Brazil the last 5 years. That wood is a dime a dozen here so it’s wild to hear how difficult it is to find there. And it’s so awesome she got the furniture here in Brazil (and called it by it’s actual name). Really cool video guys. Love your work.
I WANT IN!!!!
Now that I’ve watched the entire video…. What an important story to tell. And it’s just as import to pass this story along to the owner of the instruments that will be created. I will be playing this during the rest of my lifetime, however, my son will one day be the custodian of this story, and this guitar, long after Brazilian rosewood will be gone.
Not to be irreverent, the wood is a spectacular find, ( kudos for thinking outside the box). What happened with the pedals?
Did she have any issue with you destroying the furniture to make guitars or did she view that as an even better use of the wood? -P. Well I guess I hear her say she knows what it is going to be used for.
Who cares if she did! Money talks B.S. walks once you purchase that thing that’s it. If she cared that much about it she wouldn’t sell it. Trust me, she can I have it shipped. It was clear that it wasn’t worth it for her to ship it. So at that point whatever happens to it isn’t her problem. If I’m buying or selling I don’t care it’s not my problem. Just like it isn’t hers.
She said she was "very pleased" in the video.
I would love to see more of the wood. Using furniture made from Brazilian RW is a terrific use of the resource.
There are a billion ways to make beautiful bedroom furniture with sustainable woods. An even more refined use for this wood is a move forward in art and music.
What an ironic story. I say ironic because just the other day my mother told me about my cousin (who lives in NJ) having a rosewood dining set that she's had in storage for 20 years and can't even give it away at this point. The style of the dining set doesn't match her new house, so she's looked into selling it. Turns out, she can't even give it away - not even through the Afghan relocation program because the government would rather waste money buy NEW furniture than get something nice for free. Whatever. Anyway, I told my mom to tell her to contact PRS or Martin to see if they could use it.
So, your story has inspired me to look into this further for my cousin. I'm not sure if it's Brazilian Rosewood...but I guess I'll find out. Congrats on your discovery!
where is the wood cutting vid.......?
Nice going on this acquisition. I see you have a few BR bridge blanks. Will you have any finger boards as well?
We will. We just have to process them.
Awsome story!
Are the guitars made from this wood availlable?
Why don't you start a line of guitars? Christine by Driftwood, I would order one.
From the moment she said jacarandá, I could tell she lived here in Brazil. But being married to someone in the Brizola administration was a whole new level. She's practically a carioca.
Hey, are you guys going to do that 3,000 year old guitar? Just curious...
Now I'm intrigued which part of England. Cool lady
I think this is fantastic! I think it's a much better use for the wood to make instruments isntead of what's basically something utilitarian. It doesn't matter what the furniture is made from, but it really matters what the instruments are made from
I have a solid brazilian rosewood victorian era table with carved feet and 3/4 inch top that my mom bought at an auction in the 1980's. I don't think 3/4 inch is thick enough to risk making a carved back for a d'angelico replica. And doing a carve and tap tooning a back - like D'aquisto's apprentist did - sounds risky anyway. And would it have great tonal qualities against a carved spruce top? Anyway, i ain't planning on cutting it up. It is quite a mesmerizing piece of antique furniture as it is. But i have shopped unsuccessfully on line for other solid brazilian furniture and old piano that had brazilian sound boards.
I’ve been waiting for this vid.
I dont get it why some people are getting mad about re-purposing that wood as if like its just gonna be wasted, btw!.
Im so excited for you guys to make a beautiful guitar again been waiting for months now about the guitar building series! Good luck guys!
I got a solid Brazilian rosewood dining table with 5 leaves, 16 or 18 chairs, a china cabinet and a sideboard all for free. The table had about a 2 years' supply of old food dried onto it. The glass was broken out of the china cabinet. The sideboard top was also kind of yucky with dried on food & tobacco residue, but it is all solid Brazilian rosewood and it was 100% free. These were all FREE. The seller even delivered them, sort of. Before I could say yes or no, they had dumped this whole lot of very dirty furniture in my driveway and driven away. I have had to tell at least a dozen people outside the USA "NO", because I cannot or will not ship it outside the CONUS. There was so much wood we built a couple of solid body Telecaster style rosewood guitars. The rest was resawn into back & sides thicknesses on a DoAll bandsaw and made into everything from a uke & baby Size 4 up to jumbo acoustics. The AJ style is really nice.
Do you guys specialized in reclaimed wood? I’m new here, so forgive me if I don’t know what you’re all about but Woodcraft in Loveland, CO has a ton of Bolivian rosewood(as of a month ago when I last visited). I was very impressed with how it looked but it wasn’t what I needed for my projects so I didn’t investigate any further as to the quality. I don’t know how vast the difference is or whether their prices are fair but it might be worth checking out if you’re that crazy about it.
Lovely story. Much respect to all concerned.
Could a touring musician tour Internationally with a Brazilian Rosewood guitar or would they have to leave it back in the States?