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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Bloodwood... |
I Had my first expérience with bloodwood, and i'm bit sad! I've cut 2" x 4" by about 3/16"-1/4" thick blanks (to make guitar picks). I had in mind to get out few fingerboard of my lumber, but my little blanks have all BROKEN with a little pressure applied by finger... WHAT IS THIS!? It was breaking like you can broke spagettis, i swear... Ok, grain was like at 50-55 degrees not quartersawn, but anyway, it's supose to break like this, hu? Please tell me they're was a problem somewhere...this wood is too beautiful to not use it for fingerboards! |
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| Author: | Robert Dunn [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bloodwood... |
is the grain direction perpindicular to the strings when you strum? I have never played with a wooden plectrum, so I am not sure of design, but i would imagine they should be rather thick. 3/16" w/ grain perpindicular to strings? |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bloodwood... |
I didn't made the picks yet... |
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| Author: | truckjohn [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bloodwood... |
Quite a few of those tropical hardwoods are splitty and cracky when you get them thin... but 1/4" is still pretty thick. I haven't had a problem with Bloodwood being more easily cracked than most any others, though... Possibly, you got a bad piece with either a drying defect or some sort of Wind shake defect in it (Where the rings delaminate from eachother in the wood..) I think I would use Flat sawn wood for picks... I could see a thin piece folding along grain lines and splitting. Thanks John |
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| Author: | Laurent Brondel [ Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bloodwood... |
It sounds like you cut your blanks from the end grain. If that's the case, almost any wood would do that. |
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| Author: | Link Van Cleave [ Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bloodwood... |
What Laurent said, Plus what does a fret board have in common with a pick as far as suitability or qualities of a particular type of wood are concerned ? The demands of a pick are very different than a fret board so even if you aren't using end grain the failure of your wood to make a pick doesn't preclude it from being used as a fret board. Link |
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