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Patrick is giving me GAS for an eight string. I have neither time to build one nor money to buy one at the moment. Please desist. Thank you.

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David Morris

Heres a pic of the walnut burl veneer on of my honduran mahogany tele right after I sealed the burl with epoxy (before sanding the epoxy) to prep for finish

I got this terrific Bostogne Walnut top from OWW, I am currently working on this new guitar!

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It's nothing compared to some of stuff I've seen here, but...


One piece sipo body blank. It's pretty thin, about 1 3/8" but it should work.. leaves 1/4 inch below the lowest point in the pickup cavities.


5/4 figured maple board. The bark inclusion made it cheap. the section at the bottom is big enough for bookmatched tops.


Coccobolo fretboard blank with sapwood and small burl. The burl is from the base of a branch we had removed. I noticed the burly bark and decided to split off that piece and cut it on the bandsaw.


I love this place. It's where I get all my wood. They have great selection and are usually very willing to let me buy a piece off of boards that are by the board foot.

First shot is birdseye maple and is fret board material

This is blistered hard maple, fretboard material

Following shot is figured Shedua......fretboard, and I have enough of this for a body as well, in addition to another full board for bodies.

Next piece was bought as gunstock blanks, but I am thinking guitar. The seller named this a quilted horse piss maple! Yep, now you know where the discoloration came from....so far it doesn't smell!

Super tight figured blistered hard maple. The pic truly does not do this justice. Fretboard for a upcoming build for myself!

Next shot is a carve top glue up using three pieces of sapele.....I think! I love the look of this wood!

The following two are of a piece of figured cherry that I will be using for necks. I can get 3 full angled head stock necks or more by resawing, scarfing or making into Fynder style necks


This piece was given to me by a cousin who cut the tree, spalted the wood and sawed it into blanks. I can get a 1/4" drop top by resawing and using three pieces.

This last pic is a piece given to me by the same cousin, but this is a really odd wood. Anyone want to guess what kind it is? I will give you the hint it is an ormental tree! This is not large enough for a top so I am probably going to make a shotgun stock from it. I have another piece large enough for the fore end.


I have some what if it were large enough as well, but, ok here are two of them

This looks much like Cuban Hog to me....luvley

Could be Kim, I had never seen it and someone told me it was Sapele.....maybe more will chime in. I wish I had several large thick boards of it!

Filippo, Im curious about what kind of sound you get from a nylon string acoustic with macassar ebony back and sides. Flameco?

The difference between classical and flamenco lies in the bracing (lighter) bridge (very light) and string geometry (much closer to the soundboard). Plates tend to be thinner too. You can use any wood you can imagine for both guitars, although lighter backs are prefered for flamenco. Mostly cypress and some Indian rosewood, very rarely other rosewoods. Macassar is not a "natural" choice for a flamenco.

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Weights a ton, taps like an used nose towel, likely less stable than any rosewood, but it sure looks like a million bucks! I talked to a few classical builders who used it and said the guitar sounded very nice though, even with spruce tops. Recently I finished one in Indian rosewood that sounded really terrible (the raw back. after thinning it got some life back in it, but still dull) but the spruce top was nice and so is the guitar. But I'd rather use WRC for such backs though, just to make sure.

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oh man that walnut top I just scored!!!

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That sounds heavy to me, the typical traditional rosewood not-too-big not-double-sides guitar including Hauser is about 3.3-3.4

This being said I recently played a Giussani made from Mac, with a thin cedar top, both back and sides were double and the thing weighted some 4.5 if not even 5 lbs. The back was 3mm or more. It was awesomely powerful (but most of this only when listened)

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Here's some Macassar.

The stuff on the left will be used for 4-piece backs, the stuff on the right is for fingerboards (2 each).

The long boards have a nice tap to them, the short ones not so much.

Kevin Looker

edit:
Those are saw marks on the boards, not curl.

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I'm just a guy who builds guitars in his basement.
It's better than playing golf.