This board is dimensioned such that my initial thought was FINGERBOARD!!!!!!
But as I'm cleaning it up and seeing the grain orientation...I"m wondering about it now.
What do you think?
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| Author: | Chris aka Sniggly [ Mon May 17, 2010 9:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
This board is dimensioned such that my initial thought was FINGERBOARD!!!!!! But as I'm cleaning it up and seeing the grain orientation...I"m wondering about it now. What do you think?
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| Author: | Terry Stowell [ Mon May 17, 2010 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
bummer Chris. The grain is all wrong. I could make clock miniatures out of it, or something. I'll give you $5 for it, + shipping....  Sorry you got taken on an otherwise nice species 
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| Author: | Chris aka Sniggly [ Mon May 17, 2010 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
Actually Terry I don't feel too bad about it....I only paid 8 dollars for it. My thinking, like yours, was that it would be too unstable to use as fingerboard material....maybe inlay stuff? I don't know.... |
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| Author: | Corky Long [ Mon May 17, 2010 11:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
I'll be really interested in responses - is grain orientation important in ebony for stability of a fingerboard? I really like the look of it - if it's stable, I think I'd use it anyway - what about a zebrawood back and sides with it? Use it for headstock laminate as well? |
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| Author: | Bob Garrish [ Mon May 17, 2010 11:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
I wouldn't worry about the grain orientation, just the cosmetics. I think if you did it right and made a feature of the wonky grain that's all bunched up at the bottom it would be beautiful. Depending how the sides look, you could also bookmatch fingerboards from it. My favourite electric builder (sadly out of the game now) used a lot of bookmatched fingerboards to great effect. |
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| Author: | Laurent Brondel [ Mon May 17, 2010 11:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
I see a good amount of bridges and peghead veneers there. |
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Mon May 17, 2010 11:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
+1 on peghead veneers. Steve |
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| Author: | Chris aka Sniggly [ Mon May 17, 2010 12:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
I went ahead and ran it thru the saw....some pretty neat looking stuff. I think I'm going to let it sit in the wood room for a few months and see how much it moves around...then make a decision. Here's what they look like. 
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| Author: | Ziegenfuss [ Mon May 17, 2010 12:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
Chris, I had two much smaller pieces than that were were "worthless" from an acoustic perspective, so I made this 10 piece electric guitar drop top. It is going to be smoking! |
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| Author: | Mark A Thorpe [ Mon May 17, 2010 12:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
Those would make some awesome fingerboards. |
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| Author: | Mike Collins [ Mon May 17, 2010 2:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
I'm with Laurent & Steve! mc |
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| Author: | Corky Long [ Tue May 18, 2010 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
Bob Garrish wrote: I wouldn't worry about the grain orientation, just the cosmetics. I think if you did it right and made a feature of the wonky grain that's all bunched up at the bottom it would be beautiful. Depending how the sides look, you could also bookmatch fingerboards from it. My favourite electric builder (sadly out of the game now) used a lot of bookmatched fingerboards to great effect. Wow - bookmatched fingerboards. It never occurred to me - that could be pretty cool. You could even do a centerstrip of something equally hard, but with a contrasting color..... |
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| Author: | Laurent Brondel [ Tue May 18, 2010 11:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wood Question - What's the best use of this Mac Ebony (pic)? |
The Kasha/Shneider designed Gibson MK series from the '70 had a FB with ebony centre and EIR "sides", or the opposite, on some models. |
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