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Author:  Bobc [ Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:14 pm ]
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We have a few sets of rare persimmon available. Check them out. http://rctonewoods.com/RCT_Store/persimmon-c-2_151/
Author:  DennisK [ Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:35 pm ]
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Thanks for the heads up! Beautiful sets, and quite reasonably priced too. This one's headed my way bliss
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Author:  Chris Pile [ Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:54 pm ]
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Persimmon makes good fingerboards.
Author:  Bobc [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:28 am ]
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We will have fingerboards, bridge blanks, bridge plates, bindings and head plates soon. Also working on making pre-slottted finger boards, finished bridge blanks, finished necks and engraved head plates in a variety of woods.
Author:  Quine [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:41 pm ]
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Looks pretty. How does it compare with other body woods?
Author:  Rodger Knox [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:56 pm ]
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Would it be possible to get a couple of boards I could cut up into fingerboards, bridges, and bridge plates?
4/4, 4"wide, 2' long would be good.
If not I'm interested in fingerboard and bridge plate blanks.
Author:  Alan Carruth [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:16 pm ]
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You seldom see it with any black in it at all: that's interesting stuff.

Persimmon (Dyospyros virginiana) is a true North American ebony, and works very much like Macassar ebony in my experience. It's one of the toughest woods you'll run into. I made one persimmon guitar, and if I was playing in one of those places where they put chicken wire up between you and the audience, that's the guitar I'd want. It sounded good, too! I use it for fingerboards on 'domestic wood' guitars, and usually just stain it with walnut hull tea to darken it, since it's generally light brown or gray-brown. It's a great wood for bridge plates: it's diffuse porous, so that, unlike Osage you're never going to have a ball end up on a soft piece of grain. In some testing I did it took twice as much force to split a quartered piece of persimmon as it do to split anything else I treid, and skew cut is even more split resistant. It takes a little grunt to bend it, but it's no worse than most other hard and dense woods.
Author:  Rodger Knox [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:26 pm ]
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Back in the days when there was actual wood in golf clubs, persimmon was the prefered wood for clubheads.
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