The Tree itself is a mahogany tree that was felled in the Chiquibul jungle in 1965 - and promptly became stuck where it had fallen, resulting in it remaining in the jungle for years to come. (Having a guitar made from wood from The Tree is a five-figure process, easily.) Luthier David Smith told Shell that “t’s the rarest and most coveted wood in the world.” In a new article for Smithsonian Magazine, Ellen Ruppel Shell chronicled the tangled history of The Tree - and those of the acclaimed luthiers who have turned its wood into instruments for a small group of musicians who can afford it. That tree has, in turn, become known as The Tree – and while it sounds like this is the stuff of legend, the story behind it is very real. The “one” in question here isn’t just a guitar - it’s a guitar made from the wood of a very particular tree, which has attained a near-mythic status among guitar players for the instruments that it’s produced.
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