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Steve Kinnaird
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I think this will be post 3,000.
A fine way to mark this milestone would be a name-this-wood contest.
As usual, a fine tub-o-lard is at stake.

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If you are the kind to peek at file names, then this one will throw you. Good luck!

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Zach Ehley
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I would call it "Mary" laughing6-hehe

No, seriously, is it Indonesian Flamewood?

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Since someone already guessed Bubinga.........

Palo Escrito?


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Todd Rose
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It looks like it could be a paler piece of bloodwood, but I suspect you've plotted to stump us with something really unusual and probably domestic... something from Texas, perhaps... some kinda red mesquitey or madroney kinda thing (I can't remember if you have madrone in Texas)...

BTW, if you re-shape those wings a bit, you could make the lines formed by the intersection of the middle section and the curve of the wings come right down to the points of your bottom profile. Am I making myself clear? That would look really good, I think. It does take some careful hand work to pull that off...

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sycamom bridge...? idunno

I dunno Steve, but congrats on post #3000! Keep them coming! [:Y:]

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One of the redder rosewoods, perhaps? Maybe Camatillo or Asian Rosewood (D.Barienses)?

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Well it looks like the kind of wood that didn't shower on the boat preferring to wash up on shore...... :D

Beautiful bridge JJ! :D [:Y:] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap]
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Jim Kirby
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I would have guessed Padauk too. So no lard for me. :(

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Nice looking bridge there Steve...

...hmmm, Granadillo?



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BTW, JJ...I have always thought you were the coolest guy on the OLF!

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Bolivian Rosewood - (Tiete) ??

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Hmmmmm, Pink Ivory ?

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No, no, no, no, I'm losing count... no, no, and no.
Actually, a couple of you are close, and Todd Rose is moving in the right direction.
I will say this, it's not a rosewood.
But boy, doesn't it look like Tulipwood?



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honey locust

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Jay Lowe
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They say the mind is the first thing to go............. I'm digging through my bin of native Texas woods......... and I can't remember what some of them are. I didn't label them because I knew what they were when I got them.

I can't even remember when or where I got some of them now.

gaah

But a couple of candidates are Red Pecan and Bois d'Arc (Bodark to any fellow Texans).

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Bob Long
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Hey Steve... How about Morado?

btw nice ad in the Dec. AG Mag! I don't think I've seen that before.

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A little red for hickory... Maybe pecan?
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A little red for hickory... Maybe pecan?
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SteveCourtright
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How about some kind of acacia?
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