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I can tell you that, Al. One of the last wooden men of war ships, or call it battleships in modern terms was the frigate Jylland. Buildt just after steam power won over sails and before metal clad sides won over wood. It was build by crossing several layers of wood to make the sidings about 20"...

The reason those trees were so valued was that the prime supplier of mast and spar trees in europe, Pommerania, was about logged out of old growth timber by then. The old world had been logged out by the time the "new world" was discovered. London furniture makers like Chippendale about shit...

Made me smile, too!

I just tell them that I fell out of a tree back in -83 and broke my back. That got it out of my system, so I haven't done it since. I say it with a smile, but it usually shuts them up. Hell of a picture, Butch!