REVISITING INDIA
India Tour Part 2: In late 2007 and early this year, Jean revisited India, once again to find the best materials for your future guitar!
- narrated by Jean Larrivée
Dubai International Airport
Authentic Indian cuisine
This is one of the first lumber yards I visited.
Woodmill workers splitting Rosewood.
Cutting a special log for me
There was so much Rosewood to select from!
Inspecting Rosewood for future backs and sides.
Village woman walking home from the local market.
Top view of another woodmill.
Charley and I at lumberyard. These are special Silver Oak logs.
As you can see, even though the roads look fairly dry, you can still get a sense of the humidity by the
bright green foliage and trees.
Local water main being installed.
Workers improving the road conditions.
At another woodmill, selecting future backs and sides.
Highly figured Indian Rosewood.
Match-making factory across the street from the saw mill. This is the first step in creating matches.
Matches flying everywhere!
From the rooftop, workers shove matchsticks down a chute.
This is the largest heap of match sticks I had ever seen!
Rope-making business at work...
With owners of the local rope-making business.
Recycling the old ropes.
Stopping by a local restaurant for lunch.
Bananas are seen everywhere in India.
Beautiful Rosewood logs ready for cutting at another woodmill visited.
Cutting Pincoda log for local furniture business.
Bike riding at woodmill.
Taking a nap in the sun.
At the beach...
Lots of seafood everywhere!
The photo does not do justice to this beautiful well!
Selecting large Rosewood blocks to be cut into sets.
Worker disposing of sawdust.
Selecting more blocks for sides.
Papaya trees surround the area.
Rubber plantation.
Fresh coconut milk makes for a very refreshing break in the humid conditions of India.
Goats like milk too!
Hand made blocks for building houses.
Beginning of a home being built in Cochin.
Another mill, more backs and sides being selected.
You can find a huge variety of fresh fruit in almost every street corner.
Selecting the highes grades of Rosewood for future guitars.
Cutting of backs and sides.
Sharpening saw blades.
Local streets, many random animals roam the streets.
Elephants roaming around!
Everyday bustling city life. Downtown Cochin.
Visiting another mill.
School girls going home from a long day at school.
These are logs, not for musical instruments, for local furniture makers.
Typical Indian sawmill.
Logs for furniture making.
View from my favorite restaurant.
My favorite restaurant in Cochin.
Thomas and I at the local restaurant.
The catch of the day!
Tourist boats cruising along.
Coconuts were everywhere!
My favorite tree in Cochin.
End of Tour.
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