I don't even know what socialism is. I'm not at all familiar with these things. I'm not even sure what Canada has been all my life. I kind of live half here and half in my own world (see the past weekend engagement for reference). 🤣🤣🤣
That's a good question about red cedar. I would suspect it's irradiated, or some other method used to treat it. Manufacturers can do that. I don't have such facilities. There also might be more restrictions on individuals, which I would suspect. I've shipped internationally many times. Each country has their own import/export restrictions and there are also CITES laws to be checked as well. All things I check beforehand and do the documentation for shipping. Some materials can't be shipped from one province to another without obtaining a permit first, as I've had to do for some purchases.
It's best to source local as much as possible. It makes things much easier.
That I can tell. Ha, ha, ha. I have to deal with this stuff because it's all over the place! 🤣
Yeah, I know, but it doesn't help that it's one of the best materials to make sound boards. And there's no other way of getting it than buying it or importing it. There's no say to source it locally. And well, the other woods we have are fine for other things. But we can't even produce Spruce because of the climate. And I get the whole bureaucracy of shipping stuff is hard work.
Ha, ha, ha. That cedar doesn't. I know it isn't a cedar at old nor is it red. Weird name for a wood. We have species of stuff but they are tropical woods. Some of them are beautiful, but the best woods for the job are usually imported.
Not all woods. And well, true cedar is the native thing of Lebanon. Aside from that most of the things we call cedar is actually cedrala. We have some interesting woods for carvings as well. And imported woods are used for concert-type instruments. For the rest, local woods do wonders.
We have a purple wood around here, but I think it's a different kind. Thuja I know it's the species of the thing we call Red Cedar. As I read once in a book about guitarmaking "it's neither red, nor cedar" 🤣