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It's handy living nextdoor* to a cabinet maker!
I had a chat with him last week, as part of my hunt for some "raw" Limba and he mentioned that he was putting in an order to his timber supplier over the weekend.
So I tagged on some bits for my wood store too - and it arrived today.
That's 2 lots of 10" wide Idigbo - being the closest the timber yard could find to Korina/Limba - and some 8" wide Utile / Sipo because it was (a) available, (b) cheap and (c) Mahogany-esque!
All 2" thick.
Just cut in half to get it in the car. If the ends are OK, then there's three half-bodies in each plank. Looks pretty clean with no obvious defects.
Some thicknessing and jointing to be done sometime ...
*I say "nextdoor", and technically he is, but he's also a mile away on the neighbouring farm!
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With so many comparison web sites out there, how do I choose the best one?
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Yeah, but you use all sorts of odd stuff.
Now, if I’d realised that London Plane is aka Lacewood ...
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But then there seem to be different understandings, definitions, opinions (etc, etc) about it all. Who knows ....
Ohh its sort of working now.. Check these back and sides
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Lacewood is a common name for the wood produced from a number of different trees, with mostly a striking appearance of their "lace-wood“, which gets its name from the lace like pattern: These include:
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And on the subject of confusing wood names. To an American, this is sycamore
https://www.wood-database.com/sycamore/
Which is close to London plane, what we call sycamore, which is sort of a maple, but different to what americans call maple. Which really is a maple.
Nice wood haul
Next time I get a free day, I'll pop over to our local sawmill to see what they have. Not always useful, but some beautiful timber every so often - ash/oak/elm/laburnum/hornbeam/chestnut etc.... Also often have burry slabs, so maybe it's time to do a CrimsonGuitars inspired metallic-resin inlaid top?
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Heres some Sycamore we had a short while back.. Lovely stuff.. Not hard enough for a neck really but makes a nice body.
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Even if not strong enough for a whole neck, perhaps a laminate?
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David Dyke has loads of beautiful wood. Full stop.
A truly dangerous place to visit with a credit card
Flamed sycamore is suitable for making one piece necks, they do not need carbon rods. Back in the 60s Burns and Watkins only ever use sycamore for the necks.
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I sort of promised myself that I'd not do anything else until I'd finished the Q1 challenge guitars. So, wood is out of the way until then.
How does yours look @PeteC ? Post some pics ...
I visited a local wood yard - where trees come in, and planks (and all sorts) go out - earlier this week. Explained what I was after ... and was directed towards some Cherry, plenty of Ash (but what I picked up was heavy), some rippled Sycamore and some 18yo 2” thick English Walnut in 12” wide boards. It wasn’t cheap, but it was tasty with some lovely colouring and grain.
Actually, for what it was, it probably wasn’t expensive either.
And of course he could slice the 2” boards into 10mm thick pieces for me ....
I’ll be going back as soon as he’s cleaned up some offcuts that were just dumped in a pile between the wood stacks and the firewood store!
Then he mentioned the “stack” of Birdseye maple that he’d had, but recently sold off cheap because no-one wanted it, and I nearly cried ...
It is an absolutely stunning wood...
We had an amazing batch in a short while back and some beautiful tables got made
https://i.imgur.com/GcJvMY1.jpg
I mean.. Look at dat...
https://i.imgur.com/heK1F3K.jpg
We also got a tree from someones front garden a month or so back...
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And some of what it produced... Of course it has to air dry for a while before we can sell it
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Now I’m thinking I should go buy those boards from the wood yard ...
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