Official Luthiers Forum!

Good Morning,

What better way to start off your Easter Sunday than with the ever popular name that wood contest.




The winner can have bragging rights to being pretty good at identifying wood.

Good Luck!

poplar

_________________
Ken Franklin
clumsy yet persistent
https://www.kenfranklinukulele.com

Could it be dogwood? (although looks pretty large for dogwood).

Good guess Ken. It does look a bit like some poplar, but sorry. Incorrect. It's a little more exotic.

Sorry Corky. Not dogwood.

black hearted sassafrass

Laurel.

_________________
Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Brazilian rosewood.

If it won't shower on the boat but prefers to wash up on shore it may be Natalie Wood.

Me too

pressure treated lumber?

None of the above. Hesh, I'm pretty sure this wood would float.

OK, a clue. I was just on vacation and came back with a tan and this board.

Vera, is that you?

Sorry. Vera has left the building.

All right, another clue. Apparently it's the national tree of the country I got it from.

eucalyptus.

Just a guess, and a wild one at that... is it cypress?

_________________
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/jsh ... ef=profile
http://www.youtube.com/user/Jallh82

Olive or Ahuehuete?

gum

_________________
John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
Co President of ASIA
You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

You got it Chris! Mahoe is the national tree of Jamaica. We were driving out in the country and passed some piles of stickered lumber. Of course we stopped. Turned out to be a wood working operation. They were building furniture. It was a little different than what I was us to. Running on Jamaican time. There was about 6 of them working there and only one pencil. They were good guys and happy to show me around. They had mostly bed frames and dressers. After they built them they would then carve on it. Lots of carvers in Jamaica.

Thanks For Playing!

How do you get it out of the country ? How does customs let you through ? I would suspect customs would stop you and fear insects coming in or something right ?

_________________
It's this new idea from recent decades that everyone gets a participation award. - MUX

I saw one nicely quartered piece but it was only 1 x 3. It's pretty hard to do proper justice to a pile of wood when you have your family looking over your shoulder.

I was a little surprised John. I had no idea what to expect. The roll of packing tape I used wasn't good enough for the baggage dudes to hold my 3 - 3ft boards together so they sent me to the plastic wrapping guy. They work you over right to the end. It cost me as much for this guy to put about a mile of plastic film on as it did for the board. Coming into Canada I thought we were in the clear when we got through the first customs agent but got directed into the shake down area. There was 4 or 5 customs agents standing at the a table where they tear into you stuff and not another person around. I smiled at the biggest guy and made some comment about not liking the look of this. He asked me what I had, cut open the end with great difficulty. I did get my moneys worth in plastic wrap in Jamaica. Saw the end grain of the boards and sent me on my way. I asked him "what if I said it was Brazilian Rosewood". He shrugged and mumbled something but it but it didn't seem to mean anything to him.

... They just dont understand do they Danny?

_________________
It's not the miles ahead, it's the stone in your shoe


In Markham,Virginia