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Re: Material: Really special wood
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 12/9/2010, 12:54 am
In Response To: Re: Material: Really special wood (Malcolm Schweizer)

: I got it on eBay. I wrote the guy asking to make me a deal for
: three sets (again, these were being sold as guitar backs). I
: have asked him in the future when he gets wood like this to let
: me know before he cuts it. I would just love to do a big wide
: accent stripe out of this stuff. It's very expensive but this is
: a very special build and I wanted to pull out all the stops.
: Wait 'til ya see the bubinga, walnut, and maple together. It's
: gorgeous. My scrap pile is rapidly becoming very valuable. I'm
: not throwing away even the smallest piece.

I know about expensive scrap :) I've got some tiny pieces of purpleheart that I won't throw away and was repeatedly questions about why when I moved this past spring . "why are you saving sticks??"

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Material: Really special wood *PIC*
Malcolm Schweizer -- 12/7/2010, 1:05 pm
Re: Material: Really special wood
Bill Hamm -- 12/8/2010, 12:32 am
Re: Material: Really special wood
Malcolm Schweizer -- 12/8/2010, 10:01 am
Re: Material: Really special wood
Bill Hamm -- 12/9/2010, 12:54 am
Re: Material: Really special wood
Tim Abbott -- 12/8/2010, 10:34 am