LOGS FROM
DOWN
UNDER...
As many people know, I build acoustic guitars
from local woods. And the tops of my guitars are
"Adirondack red spruce" from the bottom of
Schroon Lake. For a guitar, the most important
part that contributes to sound is its top, and
Adirondack red spruce is considered to be the best
material in the world for this. The spruce logs I use
are 150-year-old logging logs meant to go
downriver to the sawmills in Glens Falls during the
logdrives of the 1800's. What a special sound this
wood gives to my guitars!
Questions I have about logs I find on the bottom of
Schroon Lake:
By Eric Bright
The mysteries of
the Adirondack Red
Spruce found on the
bottom of Schroon Lake
• Why do logs end up where I find them? Let's see.... If
I were a log, where would I want to get "lost" and soak
up enough water to sink? Along the shore somewhere
in the shallows? In a cove or bay? And how is all this
related to the currents in the lake and the prevailing
winds?
• How long did it take for a log to soak up enough
water to sink? They say some of the logs that made it to
the sawmills took as long as 2 years to get there! The
spruce logs that I pull up usually have tight growth
rings (the pine logs usually have bigger growth rings).
Perhaps that contributed to the log's density,
with
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air pockets and buoyancy.