it's a gibson les paul, and it just speaks volumes just right there. boom. the natural, slightly ambered, clear allows that wood to just be everything it's supposed to be, and it's just lovely, it's just lovely. i'm always going to make an effort--if i have to go out and obtain wood, i'm certnly going to want to obtain wood that is definitely known to be, you know, sourced gally and sustainably. it makes perfect sense to me that in this day and age, if i need something that i don't have, i would absolutely just make sure that i'm working with reputable sources. woman: when people think of illegal logging, some of their first thoughts would be thinking about boards, something kind of like this. this is dalbergia nigra. but ineality, legal logging is also about things like this. this is a guitar back made out of dbersia nigra-- brazilian rosewood--and it's considered to be one of the most endangered species of trees in the world. what i discovered in my early research is that illegal logging is kind of the monster in the closet that nobody talks about or even