Any idea where I can get a list of the forbidden woods? I always ask my suppliers if their woods are eco-friendly, but what are they going to say? I’d rather stick with the legal stuff, naturally. Wish there were some good domestic woods to rival the exotics. Acetal is great stuff, but nowhere as satisfying as natural wood.
This mess doesn’t look good for Gibson’s Original Acoustic Instruments Division, (OAI,) in Nashville. After the flood, they never bothered to get their banjo tooling back together. They make a million times more Les Pauls than banjos anyway, so I figure they will never get back into it.
As for existing instruments being confiscated, I don’t see that as becoming a problem unless you try to take it over international borders. Now, if an Arizona State Trooper tried to take my Martin D-45 Celtic Knot at the Texas border, it would be a clear signal of teotwawki.
Don’t try to take a Brazilian guitar into Germany, though, no matter how old it is. They have already confiscated a bunch of 'em, and they’ll take it away faster than you can say Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
My siter-in-law who currently owns my old D-45 had it appraised back at the first of July, I’ve certainly contemplated her end since. 
How come? Warum so?
There is no bringing Brazilian rosewood into Germany under any circumstances. From what I understand, there is no paperwork that allows it into the country, in any way, shape, or form, regardless of having an export permit from the US, UK, China, or the moon, they just don’t want any, no how, no way. Their laws regarding taking it OUT of Germany, however, may be different, (I got this from Martin in Nazareth, who is unable to export it TO Germany, even though the wood they use is CITES certified as pre-ban wood.) The Netherlands will take it, though, provided it meets their red tape and strict qualifications. In addition to the CITES conventions that most countries have adopted, every country has its own additional laws regarding export as well as import, and the morass of paperwork usually isn’t worth struggling through.
Most fretboards are rosewood… You need documentation for everything. Those of us who fly fish and tie flies made of feathers have the same problem. I can not use a blue heron feather but I can use a chicken feather that is made to look like a heron. The problem is how to prove its a fake to the feds and real to the fish… Worse thing of all is finding a dead heron on the roadside and not being able to pick off a few feathers… Bob.
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Well, actually, Arizona doesn’t share a border with Texas, pretty close though at El Paso. Arizona does have border inspection stations for traffic from California, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico. I suspect that an Arizona State Trooper would be focused more on your highway speed rather than your fancy guitar. However, a full-car search at a border inspection station would be a different matter all together. The last time that I drove a rental vehicle in southern Arizona, I was stopped by a border patrol agent at a road block on a deserted stretch of highway. However, he was looking for live cargo (people) and not what was in my bags.
Not sure what you’re quoting. But no, it’s hyperbolic rhetoric like “tyranny versus YOU” versus rational discourse about governance. Which is part of why the Procto forum no longer exists.
Arizona used to just be interested in the fruits trying to get into the state, I’m sure a number of them owned tropical hardwood guitars.