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The Redwoods, Forests & Environment ....And Roots
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The Redwoods (Sequoia Sempervirons & Sequoia Gigantia) are superior woods: they outperform / outgrow every tree and brush species in their ranges and make the very best wood signboards. I custom carve signs in Clear Heart Vertical Grain redwood. Redwood is one of the most stable woods known. Managed thoughtfully, Redwood forests are a sustainable resource.
Our Redwoods are NOT an endangered species.
No other
commercial softwood, or any hardwood I know of, produced in North America takes and holds
"paint" finishes better than Redwood. Red Cedar doesn't even come close. Because the best
boards make the best signs, we Hand Select our boards
from several sources, and are proud to offer Redwood Signs and
Lettering second to no one else's - carved on one of the best outdoor woods in
the sign business !!
Don't Be fooled. No matter the spin of some folks out there, Red Cedar wood (Thuja Plicata) is not a superior sign wood compared to either of the common redwood species. Please consider that flat grain cedar (or redwood) with knots is not a better sign substrate than clear heart vertical grain redwood without "knots"---Which is my wood. Birdseye knots, though few and far between, are not much of a problem. Look at my sign pictures very closely. Do you see any? I carve by hand. CAD (computer aided design) programmed routing isn't often the best way. Think about this: the original plates for the U.S. bank notes in your pocket weren't engraved (....all that detail!) by machine. They are cut by practiced hand and eye. So far, so good ....aye: me ....no docs---no meds---no "nerve damage". --Erl
Syverstad
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The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling (The Spotted Owl Fiasco)
"First of all, how do we even know they're telling the truth about species being (threatened, endangered or) extinct? THEY LIED about the Spotted Owl." --Darren Weeks
"....Then, we overlay the Endangered Species Act ....that verification and time did not prove out. .... Heaven forbid, when they found that a Spotted Owl had put a nest in a (Nevada) K-Mart sign, the next thing we thought we were going to have to do was go out and put K-Mart signs up in the forest. ....But the whole systems reaction was 'We made a wrong assumption and we have done an awful lot of harm with this assumption.' " --Governor Otter (ID), NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES' NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT
"The owl also may once again push the limits of what the Endangered Species Act really means in Northwest forests. It may turn out the act can't be much help to the owl, if it's basically being bullied out of its home by the barred owl." --Seattle Times, April 16, 2003
"In February 2003, after completing a 12-month review as required by the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the California spotted owl, a native bird found in forests of the Sierra Nevada, the central coast range, and major mountain ranges of southern California, doesn't warrant ANY protection under the ESA."
"Due to overregulation which virtually stopped logging in Pacific forests, regulations which the Service (U.S. Fish and Wildlife) now claim were never needed to "save" the spotted owl, forest fires are soaring (see chart). What isn't logged by humans is now burned by Mother Nature. Amazingly, all these fires appear to have not bothered the birds one bit. They simply flew away when threatened, begging the question: If all this fire didn't burn the birds out, why was logging considered such a dire threat?" --Teresa Platt
Name some. Name one, even: Since the time of Columbus, name the extinct species ....inquiring minds would like to know.
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One One Thousandth Syverstad
He is (still) first, a precision man. He turned down "supervisor", retiring as a long running lead jig builder for the Boeing Company. He was known in this craft as a unique one who could "read" thousandths between 100ths on a machinists scale. Skeptics with a micrometer, more often than not, proved him right.The aircraft and boats you and I fly and float on exist because of his eye to precision hand crafting and attention to detail.
Henry Ford I noted Jig Builders as the "Princes Of The Manufacturing World".*
My Father used to say,"the difficult we do right away, the impossible takes a little longer".
On the subject of lies, deceivers, misleaders (most of our politicians, et al!), ad men (and women)---ad infinitum: my father provided no quarter in his mind for them.
* From "FORD The Men and the Machine" by Robert Lacey
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