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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Which is even more ridiculous as some builders on this forum have mentioned other more renewable species that make fine instruments. My pine strat is excellent - actually the best strat I've played - and I imagine it has a smaller ecological cost to the planet for it. The fingerboard? Ebony. Not so great, probably.
Martin, Taylor, Yamaha, Fender, PRS and Gibson are all active in ensuring sustainable sourcing of tonewoods and, in some cases, using different woods entirely for sustainability reasons.
I believe Gibson even tried to spin their Richlite fretboards as “sustainable alternative”, rather than “we have to use this because the Feds seized our illegally imported ebony”.
I up cycle broken electronics all the time. It's a bit of a bind sometimes because you can never throw anything away ...there's always some part of it that will be good for something else. A laptop with a broken screen can have the board rehoused in a small box and make a dumb TV smart. The cell's from the battery can be reused to refurb a drill battery. An old virgin media router transformer can be converted into a low voltage AC supply for pedals that need AC.
You can make something like a Tubescreamer out of very common bits of broken gear. . I did a little vid years ago to prove that point and made one mainly from a broken computer speaker with a few extra bits nicked from other junk in my workshop and an enclosure nicked form my wife's dressing table.
Sadly it's not so easy to recycle modern SMD components. You can do it and I do it on laptop boards all the time but that's generally to repair and because you can't just buy these components anywhere, you need donar boards to nick bits off. Eventually everything will be built like this but in the mean time you can save a lot of money and have a lot of fun upcycling electronics
https://godlyke.com/collections/power-all-eco-dapter
Not a pedal, and only carbon-neutral because they're offsetting it, but still.
If so, I'm a-savin' the planet asap