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Article: Guitar firm picks up good wood Old timber was once on Lake Superior's bottom
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 14, 1997
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Wood from old-growth timber that rested on the bottom of Lake
Superior for more than a century soon will be in the hands of a
Waukesha guitar maker who plans to transform the material into
`brand-new antique` instruments.
William Paul Jarowsky, president of W. Paul Guitars Inc., plans to
use the century-old wood to turn out as many as 200 guitars, which
each could sell for $8,000 or more. Already, Jarowsky's business
has built one guitar from the wood.
`This wood sat under water for 100 years and now it is antique,`
said Jarowsky. `You could say we are building brand-new antiques.
Superior Water-Logged Lumber Co., based in Ashland, began using air
bags in 1995 to raise old growth ...