I stopped at a lumber store up north this weekend to look for some wood for some electric bass necks and ended picking up some sweet zoot for acoustics as well. I spent this evening giving my bandsaw a workout. This is the first somewhat major resawing Ive done and thought I'd do a little show and tell. Zoot pics are always fun to look at.
Board #1 is a chunk of 8/4 fairly well quartered Coco with a really nice dark color and stripes. Out of this board I got one 6-string bass FB, four FBs, nine BB and eight HP/rosette pieces.
Board #2 is African Blackwood. Very little checking on one end. One side is very well quartered. I got three FBs out of that side and material for probably 10 BBs. I may loose a few to the checks on the end. This stuff rings like a bell.
Board #3 is a small piece of Ziricote I resawed into two FBs.
The total material cost for all this was just $103!
plus tax.Other than the zoot score, I'm happy that I chopped the Coco up into 22 pieces and didn't break out in a rash. Mask, vacuum and air filter were on the entire time though. Second is that my adequate but nothing fancy Grizzley 0555 bandsaw with Timberwolf 3/4" AS-S blade did a great job. I was anticipating dulling a blade for the cause, but she's still sharp.
Now for some zoot porn:
They do have another store the south of me instead of north of me that I want to check out. I'm going to buy as much of this as i can. Most of the blackwood and coco was too small for FBs. I may have just got lucky.![[:Y:]](./images/smilies/smiley20.gif "Thumbs Up")