Well that sure is pretty cool isn't it.
I was cutting up some beets for dinner last night and my hands looked like that color
But seriously I was wondering if beet root could be used as a stain. Looked the saem as that color in the light.
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| Author: | Ruby50 [ Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | red wood |
Not redwood, but red wood. I am building a late 20's Gibson L-1 shape out of all-Alaskan Yellow Cedar. It has no finish and the neck still has hard corners. It was sitting on a window seat when the sun went down behind it: |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
Well that sure is pretty cool isn't it. I was cutting up some beets for dinner last night and my hands looked like that color But seriously I was wondering if beet root could be used as a stain. Looked the saem as that color in the light.
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| Author: | DennisK [ Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
jfmckenna wrote: Well that sure is pretty cool isn't it. I was cutting up some beets for dinner last night and my hands looked like that color But seriously I was wondering if beet root could be used as a stain. Looked the saem as that color in the light.Certainly would stain. The question is how it would hold up over time. Might as well make a test piece, and if you're still curious about it a few years from now, you'll have the answer  Actually, make two test pieces, and expose one of them to sunlight to see how that affects it too.
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| Author: | Haans [ Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
Looks like the pink part of Pink Ivory. 
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| Author: | Mark Mc [ Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
I love a 13 fret neck! |
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| Author: | Ruby50 [ Wed Jul 11, 2018 5:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
Thanks for noticing the 13 frets - I built a Nick Lucas Special with a 12 fret neck and wondered what the top would sound like with the lower bridge Ed |
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| Author: | rlrhett [ Wed Jul 11, 2018 6:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
Ruby50 wrote: Thanks for noticing the 13 frets - I built a Nick Lucas Special with a 12 fret neck and wondered what the top would sound like with the lower bridge Ed Many years ago I made several based on the L-1 pattern. It was a Goldilocks series of builds: 14 -> 12 -> 13 fret. Ah... just right. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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| Author: | Mark Mc [ Thu Jul 12, 2018 5:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
My Goldilocks sisters - but unfortunately they don't have the same magic red glow! Attachment: 2 x 13.jpg
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| Author: | Ruby50 [ Fri Jul 13, 2018 8:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
Makes me wonder - the body on this guitar is Alaskan Yellow Cedar, a softwood. Do tops of all guitars have that nice glow when the sun hits them, but we never see it because we aren't inside the guitar? Ed |
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| Author: | Alan Carruth [ Fri Jul 13, 2018 8:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
My mother in law used to do natural dying of wool. She dismissed all of the things like beet and berry stains; they just fade to ugly grey or brown. She got some nice colors from walnut shavings I gave her, though. A couple of years ago I made a pernambuco guitar, and saved some of the shavings and sawdust. My mother in law is long gone, but I took those shavings to a local craft store that caters to weavers, spinners, knitter and dyers, and they were pleased. Pernambuco is 'Brazil wood'; the stuff they named the country for. It was used as a red dye before they realized it was a good wood for violin bows. Red was always a hard color to get, and expensive. There is a local craftsman, Peter Bloch, who turns lamp shades from popar logs. Big ones, sometimes. When they're taken down to 1/4" thick or less they transmit a fair amount of light, and produce a lovely warm cast. Some of his shades are 3' long and over a foot in diameter, and only 1/4" thick. I bet he blew up a few in the learning process....! |
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| Author: | DanKirkland [ Fri Jul 13, 2018 8:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: red wood |
Ruby50 wrote: Makes me wonder - the body on this guitar is Alaskan Yellow Cedar, a softwood. Do tops of all guitars have that nice glow when the sun hits them, but we never see it because we aren't inside the guitar? Ed I think it depends on the thickness of the top? I've had some in my shop you can see through if you hold a bright flashlight over them with a mirror inside. Some do this and others don't. |
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