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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/

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Beautiful and unusual tone woods at a reasonable price.
http://www.rctonewoods.com/RCT_Store
The Zootman
1109 Military Rd.
Kenmore, NY 14217
(716) 874-1498

Thanks for the heads up! Beautiful sets, and quite reasonably priced too. This one's headed my way

Persimmon makes good fingerboards.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

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.

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Beautiful and unusual tone woods at a reasonable price.
http://www.rctonewoods.com/RCT_Store
The Zootman
1109 Military Rd.
Kenmore, NY 14217
(716) 874-1498

Looks pretty. How does it compare with other body woods?

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.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon

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.

Back in the days when there was actual wood in golf clubs, persimmon was the prefered wood for clubheads.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon