Every year, between 150 and 200 Sitka spruce logs cut from Southeast Alaska forests are barged south to a small company in Concrete, Wash., where they begin their transformation into acoustic guitars ...

A little piece of Alaska has helped create some of the music industry’s biggest hits. Sitka spruce is a prized “tonewood” used to make guitars and violins. But one guitar company is pushing back and ...

Big-name acoustic guitarists in the 1960s were likely using instruments with wood sourced from Hoquiam’s Posey Manufacturing Co., an Australian professor recently discovered. Professor Chris Gibson ...

SEASIDE, Ore. – The nation’s tallest Sitka spruce could be on its last limbs. Last week’s strong winds knocked a section of rotted wood from the trunk of the 204-foot tree southeast of Seaside, and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a block of Sitka spruce, the ...

THE possibility of controlling insect attack in wood by exposure to gamma-radiation has recently been discussed by Bletchly and Fisher 1. Although the practical applications of this method have still ...