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Some Tennessee walnut I rescued from a guy cutting iti into gunstocks

That didn't work the way I planned. I wanted to add this pic of hondo rosewood from guatemala I cut. I just had nobody to show these pieces to, so I was posting them here. When I show wood to my friends and family, they look at me oddly.
I thought tge walnut was the best eastern black I had ever seen, so I talked(paid) the gut to stop cutting it into gunstocks.
The hondo rosewood is really beautiful, me thinks.
I still need to cut the sides for the HRW.

my family and friends look at me the same way to.
Beautiful would!

Oh my...those are gorgeous, Mike (wiping the drool off my keyboard).

None of my friends or family have any appreciation for wood either, so I feel your pain.

Must resist urge to make joke about showing your wood. . . oops.

That walnut is wonderful, I wish I could stumble across some of that!

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Reminds me of the time my wife had all her lady friends over. They were talking about my guitar building adventure and my wife excitedly asked if they wanted to go downstairs and see Joe's wood. There was a brief silence followed by a roar of laughter, my wife turned the prettiest shade of red!

None of my family or friends "get" the wood thing either. I need some new friends.

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My wife is same , but when she fusses I mention the LARGE amount of quilting ,material in her sewing room and she usally shuts up

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Always been proud of my wood, this walnut especially, as it was a 4 inch flitch the guy had sold a couple of gunstocks from on the ebay- but I could see it had the pith right in the center of it and would make two perfect quarters for sets- assuming there was no misery hiding inside or a million other things that could go wrong do-
Surely it is purdier at guitars than gunstocks.

The term "wood porn" comes to mind.



Indeed! I have a beautiful billet of claro walnut that was sold as a rifle stock billet. I plan to use it for a higher purpose.

Gunstocks should be crotch walnut, save the stable quartered stuff for guitars.
I thought it was a public service I was performing. I don't see anyway to make a bookmatched shotgun.
My wife has never offered to let any of her firends see my wood. I will ask her why tonite. I muchly enjoy that story.
Thanks for the validation.

That is a nice score on the walnut. It would have made nice premium gun stocks, too, but what the heck.
You'll get more individual pieces out of the stash than the stock maker, and it ought to make some beautiful instruments. I love black walnut in all its forms--even the plain figured stuff.

Don't ask the question unless you're prepared to hear the answer.

anybody who collects wood already has a pretty thick skin

Beautiful walnut!

My wife appreciates beauty in natural material, just no the amount of financial return that it generates for us!

I find that most people are interested in this...to a point. Then their eyes start to glaze over and I stop. With very few people do I ever get to the interesting parts.

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SNAP!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

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've actually been caught playing with my wood...................

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