Alan Ollivant, a former Wrangell resident and executive with North American Wood Products of Portland, Ore., shows the grain of Sitka spruce grown on Wrangell Island. The firm specializes in wood for the musical instrument market domestically and abroad.
Wrangell is special for a lot of reasons – and thanks to the work of a company from Oregon, the world of acoustic musicians may soon discover just how special the wood in our forest really is.
Bringing Wrangell’s Sitka spruce to instrument manufacturers around the world is part of the mission of North American Wood Products, a Portland-based wood company that, among other niche markets, specializes in delivering high grade wood to guitar, piano and violin makers.
Alan Ollivant and Randy Volk made the trip from Portland late last month to take possession of an order of spruce from Whale Bay Log...
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