guitar building wood
Im looking for guitar building wood that ia longer than 21 inches long for building a guitar that requires it.
if anyone can point me in the rite direction, I would be greatful-- peace, Donald
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Permalink Reply by Donald A. Fortune on
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Hi Frank - thanks for the reply but I'm liiking for mahogny and or spruse that needs to be quater sawn and for making guitars-- peace
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KOA you say?? please give me some sizes that you have ok??
Prices too?? Peace
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Permalink Reply by FRANK on
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don look at my profile photo look at the figuer there Ill get a measurement tomorrow
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Permalink Reply by Rob Mercure on
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What type of quitar are you constructing and what sort of tonal qualities are you looking for - oh, and where do you live (and how much time do you have to store wood?)? I've mentioned often that lots of very high quality wood are discarded in packaging ranging from black cherry to yellow popular to bass wood to all sorts of exotic trees probably clear cut in SE asia to feed the Chinese factories. Sears throws away lots of material where three pieces would form a "through body" electric guitar with ony the fretboard purchased. And there are native woods commonly discarded such as Osage Orange that are easily hard enough for a fretboard if you don't mind wilder colors (or are willing to dye a FB).
Here in the Appalachian Mountains incredible amounts of black walnut (Juglans Nigra - any other Juglans isn't a "black" walnut by definition) are discarded and last Friday I took a 60 foot tree 2' in diameter at breast height (DBH) that the cable company was removing to run a new line to the public library. As I've already got more walnut than I'll ever need plus several larger downed trees awaiting my pickup in a neighboring town the cutting crew was nice enough to but it into 18" lengths for me and I've already started splitting it for winter firewood.
So, unless you're dedicated to spending your cash or looking for something fancy (or acoustic top wood - very little spruce here but I've got my eyes on a Blue Spruce cut into 25" diamenter/14 logs fairly near my house - might be worth the experiment if I can just move one). there's far far more wood piled and burned, buried in landfills, or shredded for "mulch" (makes lousy mulch soaked with whatever chemicals were moved on it) that given "higher" use.
Even if you don't salvage wood for the instruments it's worth salvaging some of it for forms and tables and shelving.
It ain't growing as fast as we're wasting it!
Rob
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Hi Rob - I'm looking for top wood in 32-36 inch lengths to make an acoustic lap top steel guitar, also side and back wood of the same dem. I have full size plans coming to make one, so I'm in the search to find materials.
I can modify the sides so that I can use 32 inch material and make the top and back in 3 pieces, but thats not what I realy want to do.. I have seen harp guitars with maby 48 inch material, so someone has to be supplying the material...
Thanks for the reply-- peace
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Highland on
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Alaska specialty tonewoods have spruce weissenborn tops
http://www.alaskawoods.com/index.php
I don't know about mahogany, you may have to contact some of the suppliers direct for that.
Koa is readilly available from a couple of hawaiian suppliers and australian blackwood from "Australian Tonewoods"
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Thank you jeff- useful site-- Peace, Donald
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