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On my quest for some indian rosewood I could resaw for double-side experiments - better cut lots of very thin slices than have to sand away half the thickness - I tracked down a local guy who had imported some East Indian rosewood from Indonesia. It's not the super dark 'traditional' stuff, but there are pieces with some nice color and figure to them. Mostly quartered stock, a couple of pieces that are almost big enough for a full electric body were it not for a few cracks (heart of the tree) down the middle, but I've now got a bunch of quartered pieces the right dimensions for side billets (or fingerboards, 3-4 piece backs) as well as 3-4 billets' worth of back/side sets. With a little careful resawing I should get a minimum of 10-12 fairly 'unique' back/side sets out of the larger chunks, with another 9 billets left for 'spare' sides, necks or other purposes. Probably 20-25 sets if I make multi-part backs. Cost: 490 euros, total.

Now with picture (the big chunk is about 5 ft tall, the other 1/3 of the board is hiding behind it):

:-p

The room smells like rosewood right now. I'm not complaining

Stasherama!!

DF

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

Yeah, what Chris said . . . . . ,but

I swear Mattia gets all the good wood.

I also scored some big EIRW from Indonesia a year or so ago, but these were nicely quartered, dark and straight grained. Was very lucky. Just wide enough for OM's and possibly dread backs.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

..it just keeps getting better. The guy e-mailed me a few days back and said he was looking to offload the entire remaining supply, and quoted me a price I could not refuse. I think I have almost as much EIR as mahoganies in lumber form now. Total breakdown including last week's haul is something like this:

1.25" stock (rough planed)
4" x 26" - 16 qs boards
4.5" x 26" - 10 qs boards
4.5" x 36" - 10 qs, 4 flat/rift boards
5.5" x 26" - 13 qs boards
6" x 33" - 12 qs, 1 riftboards
6.3" x 22" - 4 qs boards
6.3" x 42" - 3 rift, 3 flat
8" x 36" - 4 quartersawn bookmatched pairs (so 8 boards)

Then there's the big 2 blocks pictured up top (mostly quartered, can probably get 4 or 5 back billets out of it), two 7 foot very flat sawn boards (lots of sapwood, but sapwood in very good condition) with great color, so I may get decadent and make some furniture with that (or resaw for neck stringers/laminates for electrics and acoustics), a total of 9 2" thick billets all wide enough for acoustic backs and about that size, most flat sawn, plus 8 other slightly smaller (mostly flat sawn) billets that will likely get turned into drop tops or carve top billets for electric guitars, a pair of sawn book matched drop tops, 18 (decidedly B-grade) fingerboards and 5 perfectly quartered 1.75" billets sized for fender-style 1-piece necks.

There are quite a few boards with some end splitting, inclusions, and whatnot, so there will be resaw loss, but the majority are really very nice indeed. Total cost for the lot comes out to around USD 6.50 per board foot. Me happy

Drool.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."