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Fender Musical Instruments
Guitar maker; maple/rosewood/alder/ash tonewood user.
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Did you know2024
Fender's electric guitars famously used swamp ash for their bodies — until the supply collapsed. The emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle devastating North American ash trees, combined with flooding in the southern bottomlands where swamp ash grows, made good ash so scarce that around 2020 Fender largely stopped offering it, shifting to alder, pine and other woods. So an invasive insect and climate-driven flooding rewrote the bill of materials of an icon: the wood in a Stratocaster changed because of a beetle. It's a vivid biosecurity-and-climate supply shock — a pest outbreak and a flood altered what a famous guitar is made of, the same way disease and climate reshape agricultural supply chains. The instrument's romance hides a raw-material dependency on a tree species under ecological siege, and it shows that supply risk isn't always geopolitics or concentration — sometimes it's an insect.
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