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Chris Oliver
Infinity Luthiers
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Nice load of Sugar Maple.

awesome matched pair:

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What is that??

Madagascar RW?

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WOW! That is some seriously beautiful wood. What is it?

Ziricote?

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Jason McGowan
M&S Guitars
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As we're sung to sleep by philosophies that save the trees and kill the children....
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Found a stash of old Brazilian rosewood from a retired cabinet maker back in September.....and there was much rejoicing.

everybody seems to be rescuing Brazilian rosewood these days... oh, how i envy you!!!

j/k, of course. nice find!

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Why can't I find this stuff before you? Not fair I say!

Great find....

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Only badly."

Wonderful Braz there, congrats!

My sets are Madagascar indeed.

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I've picked up some local Minnesota woods - not grown here, just bought here. Starting with two cocobolo back & sides sets that I just got from Grant Goltz in northern Minnesota.



And then some bocote and cocobolo boards which will be some fingerboards and maybe bridges and stuff. I got these from the Youngblood lumber yard in Minneapolis- just your average lumber yard.


Buy local, think global.

through late, i´d like to join the party too

photos are from cellphone and colours are slightly off due to flash... sorry.

around 300 euros (around 400 USD) for the whole lot, rescued from several closing sawmills and woodworkers. any help identifying the rosewood is appreciated. brazilian like smell, but very faint - rescued from a 80 years old cabinet a couple of years ago.

thanks,
miguel.

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sorry, i made it sound too confused i guess... there are 3 different woods in the pics: macassar ebony (a 20 years plank), the rosewood and some morado (pau ferro/bolivian "RW").

thanks for helping, Chris!
miguel.

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5/4 Honduran Church pew and 99 cent Brazilian!

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Pat

I scored a couple walnut "Logs" - here are the biggest 2... Both are about 4' long. 1 is 30" and the other is 24" diameter measuring on the conservative side.... Big and heavy....

I am making arrangements to get it milled....





I have somewhere a bit north of 300 bd-ft of walnut in the logs I have... I am looking forward to opening it up to see what I have...

Thanks

60cm wide perfectly quratersawn bubinga piece
It's next to a 21cm wide zebrawood piece

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No pics but I did get some fashioned Bamboo planks that will HAVE to be made into a guitar for the simple novelty of it.

Bamboo bodies with Bubinga brandishments?

Ok...an alliterative leap maybe....but it will have Bubinga facings on the body and headstock.

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My most recent wood score . Guess I need a 12 step program .


Became this .


Basswood , maple(hard) and black locust .
This is but a small sampling of my overall problem .

I forgot the basswood and , of course , the sycamore that I had lying around for 3 years in wedges .


Some of these maple boards have a good 16"-17" of sapwood . I am hoping to do something like a sister group of OM, 000 , 00 and 0 all from one board when ready . 6' boards should in 5/4 should make this possible for the sides and backs .
The view from my saw guy's place .

I have 3 boards of quartered cocobolo like this that are big enough to slice up for 4 piece backs. There are 3 identical boards long enough for sides. This should yield 6 sets if I ever get the nerve to try resawing.







This is one of two boards this size (10/4 - 11" by 75") of the darkest Honduran rosewood I've come across.





This is a big chunk of Port Orford Cedar that will become an electric guitar at some point.






This is quartered redwood that should yield 20+ jumbo size tops.





Here is some more Honduran rosewood - enough for two OM sized guitars. The color isn't showing up right but these are dark purple. The tree these came from grew with a vine/vines wrapped around it that created a fake quilt figure in the wood.





One more piece of Honduran rosewood - it is dark pink and purple with strange figure that looks like clouds. This will be cut up for a couple fingerboards and some bridges and headplates.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

Got this killer Amazon back. Problem is I don't have matching sides and I never saw Amazon to look even remotely like this . Besides the figure, it doesn't have much purple or red, only clean browns. Similar figure Madagascar can be found but with a clean brown color its tough.

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Nice back, perhaps you can go just with a set of BRW sides. Best regards, Alex

Thanks Alex. Yes Brazilian might do well (probably something like the stuff PeterM used on his recent guitar) but again hard to find I kept looking at my Madagascar pieces and even the brownest in the dry pieces turn too red when wet. Same for all other Amazon I have. In any case I'm willing to wait until I get a truly fine match, I want to build this for myself sometime in the future.

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