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| Author: | mgcain [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:39 am ] |
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Just curious - at my buddy's cabinet shop he is substituting flat-sawn sapele for most of his mahogany needs now - the wood is very similar but a little bit heavier. Would this be suitable for neck material? Its a lot less expensive... Mitch |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:50 am ] |
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I've heard of some who use sapele for necks, go for it. |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:02 am ] |
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Here are a couple of archived threads on neck woods, with some specific questions regarding sapele. thread #1 thread #2 thread #3 thread #4 Lots of folks in these threads recommend sapele for necks and lots of other different nect woods, notably cherry. |
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| Author: | Ricardo [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:18 am ] |
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Based on my limited experience, I find sapele as good as mahogany for necks. Carves real nice. |
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| Author: | grumpy [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:53 am ] |
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My favorite. |
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| Author: | Hesh [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:50 am ] |
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Sure and very pretty too - now if I could just pronounce it........  
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| Author: | grumpy [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:57 am ] |
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S'ah-p'eh-'leah |
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| Author: | davidmor [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:08 am ] |
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I just did two Sapele necks. It is a very beautiful looking wood under finish. I did have a little splintering trouble with it, but nothing that was too difficult to work around. |
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| Author: | davidmor [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:10 am ] |
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Okay Mario and others, here are two more woods I don't know how to pronounce. Any answers out there? Granadillo and Camatillo. Are the l's pronounced or not? |
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| Author: | Andrew Swift [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:10 am ] |
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i just went up to the WoodCraft store and got a huge piece of sapele for $23 and it's surprisingly good quality. I plan to use some of it for a neck very soon. i'll let you know how it goes |
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| Author: | Sam Price [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:40 am ] |
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Sapele is nice. I've got a few chunks waiting to be laminated into necks. |
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| Author: | Mattia Valente [ Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:06 pm ] |
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Sapele's lovely. Bit 'grayer'/less warm in colour than Khaya or the true mahoganies when fresh cut, but it ages very nicely, looks great, carves well, wonderfully stiff...perfect attributes in a neck. In fact, I recently sliced up a board of flatsawn 8/4 sapele into laminates for 2-piece necks (or more, if I add contrasting veneers in the middle). Got a dozen acoustic neck blanks and four electric neck blanks out of a board I paid about 70 dollars for (that's including 19% sales tax, by the by). Also have five sets of billets upstairs waiting to be resawn into back/side sets (quartered, ribbon-stripe) from the same lot, which will come to about 5 bucks per set (excluding consumables) if I do my cutting right. Perfect wood to practice resawing on, and great wood to build with. |
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| Author: | TommyC [ Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:54 am ] |
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David, replace the double L's with a long e. "camateeo" "granadeeo". |
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| Author: | joelThompson [ Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:27 am ] |
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i realy like sapele and i think we will all be using a lot more in the future as mahoagany gets more scarce. It does however have two problems that should be taken into account. 1, it is very brittle and as such it is very prone to end checks and splitting and i think in the long term it wont holdup as well under pressure becouse of this. 2, it can be pretty heavy but this should not realy be much of an issue if your making steel strings but i wouldent use sapele for a classical becouse of this. Apart from that i know it has been used to graet effct by many builders so go for but avoid the slabby stuff if you can. Joel. |
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| Author: | davidmor [ Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:51 am ] |
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Thanks Tommy. That is exactly how I thought they were pronounced.... but I didn't want to sound like an idiot if I was wrong!
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