Burl anyone? 300lbs for 3$ - Page 3

wilser · #41 03-23-2007, 11:39 AM

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Voyons, jpensais pas que y'avait tant de Quebecois sur TB, en passant les gars, Langevin et Forest, c'est fou raide pour d'la loupe. Appellez chez Nagam avant, juste a cote de l'aeroport. Y'ont du Maple Burl pour vraiment pas cher, Je suis jamais allez encore mais c'est ce qu'ils viennent de me dire au Telephone. j'y vas la semaine prochaine.

By the way, I think we should all speak English in here to avoid annoying anyone. Sorry guys, I promise that was the last time. hehehe...

pah-leh-boo f-gan-ce'?

in honor of the, now deceased, wood pronounciation thread

Greg Johnsen · #42 03-23-2007, 02:27 PM

pourrait...that's le futur isn't it? Or is it le conditionnel?

Je parle un peu de francais parce que je prends le classe de francais a l'ecole.

go french 3 honors

BTW, that SUCKS that you spent all that time dragging it out and you didn't get anything out of it, at least you found some maple burl...

Greg

T2W · #43 03-23-2007, 03:01 PM

Hey Greg, definitely sucks, but at least it was just muscle pain and a few bucks of gas, the big deception is that 400lbs of beautiful wood is useless. I now know that finding good Burl is hard as hell. Ill do some more research before trying to drag some more out of the woods.

by the way, yes its conditionnel, I think, I speak it fluently since it is my mothertongue, but tell you the truth I have no idea about the names of verbs and such. Grammar is for school people, and classroom is not for me.. hehehe. Kudos to learnin another language Greg, especially French, it's almost as hard as German !

Phil Mailloux · #44 03-23-2007, 11:05 PM

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Voyons, jpensais pas que y'avait tant de Quebecois sur TB

Pis en plus y'a des quebecois qui habite en australie.

Greg Johnsen · #45 03-24-2007, 05:26 AM

well, everyone I know that takes german now (as english being their first language) all say that it is so much easier than spanish or french, because in reality, english is pretty much just effed up german with less phlegm.

I'm takin french because I lived there for a yearm and when we moved back to the states I just decided to finish the classes.

Greg

T2W · #46 03-24-2007, 04:11 PM

I guess that makes sense Greg, well for you at least, since my mothertongue is french, I know a bit of dutch as well, and am fluent in Englisch, so German aint all that hard for me, I was sayin that cuz English is (no offense) a simple language, apart from the 140 irregular verbs. If ever yo come to Montreal, ill teach you our sophisticated Religion related swearing, and show you our culture, which is nothing like France, beer in every cornerstore, 18 to buy, Stripclubs all over downtown, you get the point, yup we are nuts. I wish you luck and hope to see ya around. Peace.

Eric Perry · #47 03-24-2007, 04:13 PM

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...beer in every cornerstore, 18 to buy, Stripclubs all over downtown, you get the point, yup we are nuts. I wish you luck and hope to see ya around. Peace.

Can I come???

T2W · #48 03-24-2007, 04:26 PM

youre in Pennsylvania? thats what.. 8 or 9 hours away? yeah sure, no problem, we'll get together all of us (the guys posting earlier who live around here) go to club supersex on St-Cath, yup, we'll discuss lutherie over a Pitcher of Molson, so when you comin'? hahah Cya

Beej · #49 03-24-2007, 04:30 PM

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I was sayin that cuz English is (no offense) a simple language, apart from the 140 irregular verbs.

Interesting you'd say that since linguist circles generally hold English and Mandarin as the two most difficult languages to master for non-native speakers...

T2W · #50 03-24-2007, 05:02 PM

Yea I guess. i really dont know, I dont remember learning it, hehehe, I think it's easy, but really? compared to Mandarin? there aint a lot of Grammar in English.... check out German, or Japanese, etc... anyways... why does half the planet, even non-native speakers learn english and are able to speak it with ease? Ever been to Thailand, or Nepal? they speak it pretty damn well and they dont even have the same Alphabet as us... ! try explainin that ! so if you guys dont mind... this forum is about Bass buildin.

Phil Mailloux · #51 03-24-2007, 05:30 PM

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Interesting you'd say that since linguist circles generally hold English and Mandarin as the two most difficult languages to master for non-native speakers...

English IS easy to learn, it's not for nothing it's the major language in use on the net worldwide. All the tools to learning it are all over the place. Plus you don't need to learn male and female versions of words like in the french and german languages, thats hard! All the words are neutral in english.

allright since T2W doesn't want to speak about languages anymore or chat about good ol' Montreal (god I miss it) then I'll go back to the subject at hand.

T2W, you were saying that the wood you got from the forest started to crack and all. Did you paint the ends to prevent the wood from drying too fast?

Another question that has puzzled me since the beginning of this thread, when you got the wood, you knew you were going to have to dry that for a whole bunch of years right? It seemed from the title and all the exitement during the cutting process you were going to start building basses and shipping tops to people in a couple of week or something like that...

T2W · #52 03-24-2007, 05:58 PM

i didnt paint or seal or wax the ends since they were about 12 by 10" pieces, and they cracked EVERYWHERE, every 1/2 inch there was a crack (runnin with the grain) These pieces were air dried, nothing exagerated, just like all the lumber Ive been dryin', and Ive lost count how many trees Ive cut and dried. I was expecting at least 2 years before using this, givin it time to age properly, maybe less. In a earlier thread, I explained how I dried my wood, Air for 8 months or so, kiln for 5 to 22 days. then let it age in my workspace, room or work, or where ever the RH is good, and good means, to me, 22% to 35%. The wood is about 6 or 7% MC when takin out of the kiln. I give it another few months before workin with it. I asked a whole bunch of questions to some old man (RIP Mr.Paquette) I was workin with in a huge Kiln dryin Facility, he helped me out a lot, he had filled entire ships with wood out to England during WW2, so I guess I can take his word seriously. I know what I'm doin. Mind you Burl is different, I dont know too much about Burl. but it cant be that different. anyways, ill try again soon. cya.

ehque · #53 03-24-2007, 08:54 PM

would kiln dying it immediately kill all the worms?

iamlowsound · #54 03-24-2007, 10:40 PM

English is one of the hardest languages to learn. It is nothing like any other language in, it has about 10x more words than any other language (for example Spanish has about 30,000 words, English has about 300,000 words), there are no universal grammar rules (aka rules that don't have exceptions) like most other languages, and it isn't a phonical language.

lowsound

T2W · #55 03-25-2007, 01:37 AM

well since you guys wanna stick to the subject, I will ask the same question again, which has been left unanswered. Why does half the planet learn English without a problem? Why do people who have a totally different alphabet learn English? Why do almost all Germans know English, have you ever thought maybe it's because it's a hell of a lot easier than their language? If not, why do most americans speak only one language? Do you know Mandarin? or Hindi? perhaps Hebrew?... I wouldnt be surprised if you guys saying English is difficult, only know how to speak the English language. Ich verstehe euch nicht. Uberhauptsnicht ! Ich werde niemals verstehen. - non poso capire perche dicete questo? potete capire questo? - Criss les gars ca pas d'coliss de bon sens, c'tes ricains la n'arreteront jamais de me surprendre sacraman. - Did I prove a point? did you get that !?! I certainly did !

ehque · #56 03-25-2007, 01:45 AM

haha. being a bilingual (english and chinese) im willing to wager that english is one of the easiest languages around, and chinese is one of the hardest.

wilser · #57 03-25-2007, 06:23 AM

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haha. being a bilingual (english and chinese) im willing to wager that english is one of the easiest languages around, and chinese is one of the hardest.

yeah, there's an old kid's joke where I come from where a guy is in front of an execution squad (shooters) ready to be killed when he is asked what his last wish is ...he says 'learn to speak chinese'

Greg Johnsen · #58 03-25-2007, 07:49 AM

english is easy to learn, but hard to master perfectly. Why? Because no one speaks perfect english, we all have our own quirks with it and those get passed on.

Plus, in english (I think) there aren't words that are hard to pronounce, or require special ways to say the word (accents, rolling r's, etc..) which makes it easier to learn.

Also, as everyone knows, we americans are quite lazy when it comes to change (we still use standard measurment when metric is far superior), and because america is one of the most powerful countries in business, other countries have to teach it to their kids so that when they get into business they will be able to communicate with american businessmen/women.

just my thoughts.

Hurry up and cut down the maple burl, I wanna see that

Greg

iamlowsound · #59 03-25-2007, 09:10 PM

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well since you guys wanna stick to the subject, I will ask the same question again, which has been left unanswered. Why does half the planet learn English without a problem? Why do people who have a totally different alphabet learn English? Why do almost all Germans know English, have you ever thought maybe it's because it's a hell of a lot easier than their language? If not, why do most americans speak only one language? Do you know Mandarin? or Hindi? perhaps Hebrew?... I wouldnt be surprised if you guys saying English is difficult, only know how to speak the English language. Ich verstehe euch nicht. Uberhauptsnicht ! Ich werde niemals verstehen. - non poso capire perche dicete questo? potete capire questo? - Criss les gars ca pas d'coliss de bon sens, c'tes ricains la n'arreteront jamais de me surprendre sacraman. - Did I prove a point? did you get that !?! I certainly did !

Half the planet (actually far less, more like 1/4) speaks english because the US does. English is the universal trading language (like French was 200 years ago), so it is quite beneficial to be able to speak it. A lot of Germans speak English because they most are required to learn it in school from and parts of their school is taught in English. Also ever notice how many people in the Netherlands speak German? How many people in France speak German and Spanish? How many people in China speak both Manderen and Cantonese? English is difficult, and I speak a bit of German and Spanish as well, I just can't read or write them, yet. Just because you don't think English is hard, doesn't make it so.

lowsound

T2W · #60 03-25-2007, 09:23 PM

Same to you my friend, just because you think its hard, doesnt make it so. This is coming from a guy who speaks four languages. Some people have more difficulties than other. Lets stop this mess, its gettin to be quite pointless. Peace