Now what' s really crazy ...
Is that I bought a guitar, made in China,
Shipped from Germany ...
Made of North American Ash ...
That if the Google info is accurate ... may have been grown ... in Chicago ! (most NA Ash comes from the NW US, and Illinois is a spot for that )
According to Google ... Cultivation of white ash differs across North American continent. For example, within the City of
Chicago region, 2010 statistics show most common street tree species is white ash at 6.2%. Along with third ranked green type at 4.9%, ashes combine to make up 11% percent of the city's street trees, with an overall population of 13,648,044 million standing ashes within
Cook County alone.
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So maybe this cheap Asian knockoff... is actually an Amurrican Guitar !!!