If it washed up on shore maybe it's Natalie Wood?
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| Author: | Conor_Searl [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Eko bridge/fretboard |
Any idea what this wood is? |
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| Author: | Michaeldc [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Looks like Wenge to me - M |
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Does kinda, don’t it... |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
All the Eko Rangers I've seen and worked on were Rosewood, but not really top quality. Pic doesn't have the pores for Wenge, I was working with some yesterday. |
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| Author: | Tim Mullin [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Fingerboard is Brazilian, so I expect bridge also. (Definitely NOT wenge) Interestingly, I have one arriving next week. First guitar I’ve bought in 30 years. A dead ringer for the one received from my parents as a gift when I was 13. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | Michaeldc [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 4:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Yup, shoulda looked up what an Eko guitar was before commenting. M |
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| Author: | Conor_Searl [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 5:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Brazillian rosewood? There's such a strange texture to this wood. It's almost like a rippled potato chip along the dark and light lines. |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Quote: Looks like Wenge to me - You are half-right. It does look like wenge, except for the lack of pores. That's some very stripey rosewood, for sure. From the days when exotic meant dramatic grain patterns. |
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| Author: | Hesh [ Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
If it washed up on shore maybe it's Natalie Wood?
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| Author: | DanKirkland [ Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
That's probably a weird cut of Indian rosewood that's been bleached by UV a bit which is why it's brown. If you sand it down a bit it'll turn purple probably. |
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| Author: | bftobin [ Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Lots of Eko guitars around in the 60's and early 70's, especially 12 strings. Like most guitars over fifty bucks, Brazilian rosewood. It was cheap back then. My first luthier catalog was Lewis Luthier Supply, and it was eight bucks for IRW and ten for BRW. Wish I would have bought a ton. Brent |
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| Author: | banjopicks [ Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
It's defa brownish wood. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Had to refit a warped lifting bridge to an Eko, looked almost exactly like that, wavy grin as well. Lotsa sanding involved to get the soundboard radius 'bout right underneath the bridge, but the smell, def IRW, not BRW - (I collect BRW bridge blanks and have used quite a few). It was a similar story on a FB extention, sanding level and refreting (my own) Two bucks is a lot of green when you'r producing the kind of volumes Eko was putting out, minimum estimate of 100,000 up to 200,000 at 2 bucks is 200,000 - 400,000 US dollars, equivalent to 2 - 4 million in today's money. |
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| Author: | Eric Reid [ Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
The bridge is probably wenge. The fingerboard is wenge. |
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| Author: | John Arnold [ Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Smell test should settle it. Looks like Wenge to me. |
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| Author: | Herr Dalbergia [ Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
Having worked with both, Wenge and BRW, I am tendinbg to see here Wenge. I do not know so much about EKO guitars and which woods they were using back in these days. But these pics being BRW? I dont know..... |
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| Author: | oatesguitars [ Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eko bridge/fretboard |
My sister bought a 12 string Eko back in 1979 or 80 . The bridge looks instantly familiar. I learned my first chords on that guitar. To my ears that guitar sounded great back then. I always wondered what they used for finish - it looked like it was 1/8” thick. My guess is the bridge is wenge. |
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