Martin will utilize Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified Recycled Sitka Spruce in an instrument it will unveil at the 2012 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Trade Show in California. The wood, which is reclaimed from dismantled Canadian bridges, will be used on the tops of the new GPCPA4 Sapele, one of the cutaway guitars in the company’s Performing Artist series. It is a Grand Performance body style with sapele back and sides and an Sitka spruce top. It has a gloss finish on its top and red toner on its satin back and sides. It also includes Fishman F1 Analog Electronics and a High Performance neck. To learn more, visit martinguitar.com.
Martin Using Recycled Sitka Spruce
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Excellent use of what is most likely very solid and was from old growth Spruce (I recall the pictures of logging in the early days, huge two man/person saws, horses, floating logs in rivers (if possible), trains, Just as recycling wood from what were once grand homes in NYC and elsewhere there is a chance to let decimated forests re build and regrow, and with Conservation , Acoustics and solid body guitars and semi-hollow body guitars can use some Fine wood. Bravo!