shredaholic
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My Dad was uploading some photos with his camera, so I thought I'd pinch it for a while and take some of what I've been working on or collecting over the past few months.
Brazilian Rosewood quartersawn fretboard blank from colonialtonewoods.com, their supply was cut some time around the late 50's/early 60's and has full CITES permits and documentation. Total cost inc. shipping was £35.
Set of 4 Madagascan Rosewood blanks from allenguitar.com - total cost inc. shipping was again £35. All 100% quartersawn, I think these will get a nice tobacco brown or ebony stain.
Cut during the 60's, I got this from a fellow UK resident on ebay for about £40 inc. shipping. Should produce 6 fretboard blanks if cut carefully, it's been air dried for 30 years and has a fantastic tap tone.
I got this piece pretty cheap from Brazil on eBay, it's pretty dark for stump wood and smells great! The seller (goldunited23) is very trustworthy and never disappoints on the quality of the timber. Total cost inc. shipping £49. The side that's fully black will provide fretboards, while the side with sapwood should provide some really attractive truss rod filler strips.
Matching Cocobolo fretboard blanks from ebay UK (markandjoel), very nice - they're for my doubleneck Stratocaster project, they'll have those inlays and have white binding round each board. Stacked underneath is 2 pieces of very light old growth honduran mahogany, which should provide 2 strat style neck blanks each, and 2 pieces of English Sycamore at the bottom (each piece is 28x8x1", there's 1 other piece nearby and one on the windowsill - the whole plank that the 4 pieces were cut from only cost £15 from a small timber place nearby in Cleckheaton).
3 Padauk 3/8" thick planks that should provide 6 fretboard blanks when resawn, 1" thick Zebrawood that should provide 2 or 3 fretboard and some fancy truss rod filler strips, underneath that 2 alder body blank pieces, and at the bottom a 1 piece "West African Mahogany" body blank. Seems a bit light coloured to be Khaya Ivorensis, but still seems closer to that than it does to 'Philippine Mahogany' - it's definately not the same as the fake Mahogany timber Epiphone uses, it has much more character than that stuff.
Brazilian Rosewood quartersawn fretboard blank from colonialtonewoods.com, their supply was cut some time around the late 50's/early 60's and has full CITES permits and documentation. Total cost inc. shipping was £35.
Set of 4 Madagascan Rosewood blanks from allenguitar.com - total cost inc. shipping was again £35. All 100% quartersawn, I think these will get a nice tobacco brown or ebony stain.
Cut during the 60's, I got this from a fellow UK resident on ebay for about £40 inc. shipping. Should produce 6 fretboard blanks if cut carefully, it's been air dried for 30 years and has a fantastic tap tone.
I got this piece pretty cheap from Brazil on eBay, it's pretty dark for stump wood and smells great! The seller (goldunited23) is very trustworthy and never disappoints on the quality of the timber. Total cost inc. shipping £49. The side that's fully black will provide fretboards, while the side with sapwood should provide some really attractive truss rod filler strips.
Matching Cocobolo fretboard blanks from ebay UK (markandjoel), very nice - they're for my doubleneck Stratocaster project, they'll have those inlays and have white binding round each board. Stacked underneath is 2 pieces of very light old growth honduran mahogany, which should provide 2 strat style neck blanks each, and 2 pieces of English Sycamore at the bottom (each piece is 28x8x1", there's 1 other piece nearby and one on the windowsill - the whole plank that the 4 pieces were cut from only cost £15 from a small timber place nearby in Cleckheaton).
3 Padauk 3/8" thick planks that should provide 6 fretboard blanks when resawn, 1" thick Zebrawood that should provide 2 or 3 fretboard and some fancy truss rod filler strips, underneath that 2 alder body blank pieces, and at the bottom a 1 piece "West African Mahogany" body blank. Seems a bit light coloured to be Khaya Ivorensis, but still seems closer to that than it does to 'Philippine Mahogany' - it's definately not the same as the fake Mahogany timber Epiphone uses, it has much more character than that stuff.
