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Title: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: fitness1 on April 24, 2006, 03:14:05 PM
I keep looking at the top of my OM-09 and thinking it's too consistently tight grained and dark to be Spruce.  There are places where I'm counting as many as 31 grain lines per inch :SHK>  I guess I better email Brian with some pics and a serial.
Maybe it's Jean's version of "Big Goose" spruce!! :GRN>

(http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8871/rosie48nx.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9629/rosie37ps.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/4149/rosie54uq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: shadco on April 24, 2006, 03:37:48 PM
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I think it's Sitka I've seen even tighter on one of the GS's I was looking at.

Here's some cedar



(http://www.pbase.com/shadco/image/59147978.jpg)
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: JasonA on April 24, 2006, 03:39:40 PM
Looks like spruce to me. Nice spruce, but still spruce.  :GRN>
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: fitness1 on April 24, 2006, 03:45:26 PM
hmmm......when you see it in person, it looks so much different than any top I've had on one of my Larri's (although not as reddish or dark as the OM-05 cedar I had for a short time.
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: Ratishna on April 24, 2006, 03:48:56 PM
Photo doesn't look rusty enough for cedar.  Doesn't have that red-brown look.

E. Shoaf
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: fitness1 on April 24, 2006, 05:14:23 PM
well Brian T says it's spruce too .....
here's another look at the darkness from a different angle.....part of what had me thinking that way.

(http://img276.imageshack.us/img276/2092/rosie69uy.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

it's only a 2001, for it to be that dark, DanC must have had it at the beach with him :WNK>
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: roknroll on April 24, 2006, 05:21:49 PM
The pic above almost looks like adi :huh:
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: dcarey on April 24, 2006, 05:28:44 PM
Quote from: fitness1 on April 24, 2006, 05:14:23 PM
well Brian T says it's spruce too .....
here's another look at the darkness from a different angle.....part of what had me thinking that way.

(http://img276.imageshack.us/img276/2092/rosie69uy.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

it's only a 2001, for it to be that dark, DanC must have had it at the beach with him :WNK>

Beach!?  NEVER!
But it did spend a lot of time out on the patio with me while I was barbequeing ribs, an chicken, an brisket, an...an...an....

Dan
Title: Re: anyone else think this is cedar?
Post by: hempomatic on April 24, 2006, 05:39:15 PM
Definitely not cedar.  Most likely Canadian Spruce.  Straight grain like Adirondak, and I'm not sure if it's a signature of Canadian, but the Canadian Spruce I've seen lately, including my '09 J09 seems to age and darken nicely.   Not an expert, but I've been looking at lots of Larrivees lately.  Not cedar though. 

ken 
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