If you don't use it, may I?
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| Author: | My Dog Bob [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Would you use this back (sapwood question)? |
Would you folks use this back? The sapwood has some blue-ish staining and I would love to hear some peoples opinions on using backs with sapwood like this. Thanks much, Peter Z |
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| Author: | Alexandru Marian [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Would you use this back (sapwood question)? |
Honduras? Looks awesome. I could get you rid of it for a small fee. Sapwood gets stained easily since it is light in color... Stick your fingernail in it in various places and it feels as solid as the heartwood, I'd say go for it. Also cut some of it from outside the pattern and see how it feels when splitting and tearing it. |
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| Author: | SteveCourtright [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:45 pm ] |
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In a heartbeat. Cocobolo? |
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| Author: | My Dog Bob [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:57 pm ] |
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Yeah, it is Honduran. The sap wood is as hard as a rock. It's not low density punky stuff. I can't get my fingernail in it any more than the heartwood. I guess it's good to go... Pete |
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| Author: | CharlieT [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:54 pm ] |
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If you don't use it, may I?
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| Author: | Lars Stahl [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:29 pm ] |
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YEEES |
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| Author: | SteveSmith [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:36 pm ] |
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Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Author: | Mark Groza [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:50 pm ] |
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I'd use it! That back looks great. |
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| Author: | Bill Hodge [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:12 pm ] |
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Quicker'n a South Texas Jack Rabbit!!! |
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| Author: | Haans [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:34 pm ] |
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No! Don't like sapwood. Of course I don't make modern guitars... |
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| Author: | douglas ingram [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:59 pm ] |
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Sapwood? Yucky-pooey...usually. You asked. |
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| Author: | Edward Taylor [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:28 pm ] |
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Alright Pete, come clean, this was just a gloat! 
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| Author: | StevenWheeler [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:47 pm ] |
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Doug and Haans, Thank you so much. I thought I was the only one. Steve |
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Would you use this back (sapwood question)? |
Haans wrote: No! Don't like sapwood. Of course I don't make modern guitars... Now Hans, stretch yourself. Or, creak a bit in the other direction. Just try it. Do it. C'mon... Oh, and you too, Douglas. And Steve, yikes! Get with it guys! Now as for me, I wouldn't use that stuff at all. Looks nasty. JJ |
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| Author: | My Dog Bob [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Would you use this back (sapwood question)? |
Thanks for all your inputs. Sounds like the stuff is good and usable. It will probably show up in the classified section in a couple of days (it's a classical size set or OM with wings). After thinking about it and reading the posts. I don't think I am a sap-wood kind of guy either but at least I know the set isn't junk. Thanks, Peter Z |
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| Author: | DennisK [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Would you use this back (sapwood question)? |
I shall be camping in the classifieds then, trying to resist buying it Sapwood like that is a bonus to me, especially since it wastes less of the tree. And that ink line is awesome 
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| Author: | John Arnold [ Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Would you use this back (sapwood question)? |
If the sapwood is sound, there is no structural or sonic reason not to use it. That leaves aesthetics. I cannot count the number of times that a customer has rejected a raw piece of Brazilian rosewood because it has sapwood.....and the same person would go nuts over the photos of a finished guitar with sapwood. On this guitar, there is sapwood in the center, next to the backstrip. I dyed it black.  More BR sapwood photos.  
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| Author: | nickton [ Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:52 am ] |
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wow. That's a beauty. |
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