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| Author: | jason c [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | You guys are going to hate me! |
I was visiting with my local violin builder last night and he gave me a bunch of repair books and this board.......69.5" x 7.75" x .75" ebony board that he's had for thirty years. He also is making me a fantastic deal on cello wedges. Sorry, I just had to tell somebody!  
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Well, I don't hate you but I am a little jealous. |
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| Author: | David Newton [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Listen, anyone who posts a picture of a piece of wood, has found his home here. We LOVE you man! |
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| Author: | Corky Long [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
wow - yeah, ebony's like gold these days - crazy expensive. Good score |
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| Author: | pvg [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Looks like junk; send it to me and I'll cut it into kindling for my neighbor  pvg |
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| Author: | WudWerkr [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Ya peckerwood !!
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| Author: | Chris aka Sniggly [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Please...when you have good fortune like that.....brag about it! I most certainly wood!..
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| Author: | alan stassforth [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Nice black stuff there. I've been given a lot of wood, so, I love you, man! Congratulations. What ya gonna do with it? Many fretboards? |
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| Author: | DennisK [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:08 pm ] |
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Whoa! That's quite a board. Whacha gonna make out of it? Back/side sets? Probably could cut 32" for sides, cut off 2.5" width of that for fingerboards and stuff, slice the remaining 5.25-ish into 3 or hopefully 4 side boards, which you can also get some bindings off of... then you've still got 47", enough for two stacks of backs and maybe a pile of bridges and headplates if you cut it close. Or maybe you should just make a ton of double bass and cello fingerboards. Those are quite pricey. Or save it for another 30 years until it becomes a legendary reminder of what forests once were. |
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| Author: | David Newton [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Dennis K has described the main conundrum for the wood lover who also uses his wood. What to do with it, and when? Do you store it, save it as a treasure that will certainly rise in value, waiting for the project of your lifetime, when you KNOW it is time to use it? OR... Do you decide right away what it's best use will be, and cut it down to it's logical parts, and it becomes meat for your grinder? I bought (bought, mind you) two large chunks of Gabon Ebony, and have been chipping away at one of them as I need a board and bridge, and hope to save the other balk for far into the future, like the year after next. |
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| Author: | jason c [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
It will become fingerboards, tailpieces, pickguards, bridges, saddles and headstock veneers for my archtops. The board has some pretty major cracks in it here and there so I'll layout everything as carefully as I can to get as much out of it as I can. I don't want to waste a single splinter of this board not just because it's worth a small fortune but because it was given to me by someone I respect enormously. Filippo, I have a cocobolo board like that. I keep telling myself I'm going to use it to make a classical (Friederich style) for myself even though I haven't played any of my old repertoire in years. |
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| Author: | mqbernardo [ Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You guys are going to hate me! |
Filippo Morelli wrote: Ebony is more expensive that Brazilian Rosewood these days. Good find. really? here (portugal, EU) it´s not like that at all... wanna trade some Braz for some Macassar? Filippo   to the OP: i don´t hate anybody, i like when good things happen to other people. cheers, Miguel. |
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