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One of the first things the conquistadors shed when they reached the shores of Mexico and Central America was their armor. As effective as it was against the spears and arrows of their native adversaries, in the steamy forests of the Yucatan a full suit of steel was unbearably hot, heavy and hard to maintain. Modern woodworking machinery suits the tropics just about as well. In an environment that can receive a foot or more of rainfall during each month of the rainy season, rust blooms on steel almost before your eyes. Saw blades are quickly dulled by dense, resinous hardwoods, and power supplies in many developing countries are erratic, at best. Kiln-dried wood is, in much of Latin America, a lot harder to find than an ecotourist. GreenWood takes a different approach to working wood. Read about the underpinnings of GreenWood technology...!

This story relates the first impressions of Taylor Guitar's milling manager, Chris Cosgrove, during his 2006 timber-grading workshop in the Honduran Mosquitia. Chris joined GreenWood's guitar-part production team in the mahogany forests of Copén, Honduras, to help refine their milling and grading practices. This article is excerpted from Taylor's quarterly publication, Wood & Steel, and is included here with the company's permission. The story starts on page 23 of the attached file. Read on...!