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Do any of you guys use veneers for the centerstrips in your laminated necks? I like a really fine line (1/32" or finer) and I'm not sure about using my thickness sander to go that low. So I thought about using an ebony veneer since it would be thin enough and I wouldn't waste a bunch of stock thinning it down. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Jason

Yep - works great. I've used maple and that just gives a nice classy line down the center. Ebony would work great as well.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Yep .. ebonized pear, culry maple, rosewood veneers .. whatever looks right !!!!

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

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great venners!
mc

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Mike Collins

If you have a source for real ebony veneer, please post it.

I've used black dyed veneer for neck lams with no problems, but the woods vary and some of them seem to have lost integrity in the dying process. Also, rotary cut veneers seem usually to have less structural integrity than flat cut. So I would make sure the veneer seems sound.

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Howard Klepper
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When all else fails, clean the shop.

Thanks guys. I don't know why I didn't think of dyed veneer. That seems like a better way of doing it since the line is going to be so small it would be very difficult to tell if it was ebony anyway.
Jason

I use bought in 0.6mm wenge veneers in my lam necks. Pain filling in the pores with CA though.

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Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

I have had the same experiance as Howard,especially with a batch of some "thick" veneer.

A lot of old Gibson mandolins that used thick dyed center lams split.

I buy my dyed from www.certainlywood.com -great veneer supplier

I just checked their website. The wood is black dyed Costello-$2.50 a square foot.

I have used this wood for many years with no problem-It is jet black.

I wonder if they have black dyed Abbott?

Thanks for the source.

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