Official Luthiers Forum!

Rules are:

(1) You have to guess the species of each board in order and no partial guesses - you must guess the species of all 5 boards in each of your posts.

(2) I need either the binomial name or common name for each board (ex. dalbergia nigra or brazilian rosewood)

(3) Multiple posts are allowed and encouraged. Anyone can guess and win - even wood vendors and administrators.

Winner gets Hesh's entire stash of tonewood. (the winner gets a choice of one of a few goodies - cocobolo or braz bridge blank, chunk of african blackwood, ect. I'll take pics for the winner and let him/her decide their prize)




BOARD ONE



BOARD TWO



BOARD THREE



BOARD FOUR



BOARD FIVE

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

1. Brazilian Rosewood
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Panama Rosewood
5. African Mahogany (Khaya)

In truth, #1 could be Madagascar Rosewood, and #2 I'm fairly clueless on, although the color suggests cocobolo.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

BTW...I really like #4...

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Don-

You got 2 of them right and you are close on the other 3. Your not going to believe what #4 really is.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

I'm glad you answered that way without giving away which were correct!

#4 Looks a lot like some Nicaraguan Cocobolo that I have, but I'm guessing it's no going to be that easy, eh?

You have some really nice looking woods there, whatever they are!

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

John;
did you add anything to color or inhance the woods?
Naptha for example!
mike

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Mike Collins

1. Brazilian Rosewood
2. Cocobolo
3. Black Walnut
4. Kingwood
5. Hondo Mahogany

long

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"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus

Thanks Don. Keep guessing.

Mike-
those are the natural colors of dry wood - no naptha or anything. The camera captured the colors very closely.

Bob-
you got one.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

1. brazilian ironwood

2. cocobolo

3. honduran rosewood

4. cambodian rosewood

5. meranti

Warren

 

I haven`t the foggiest,but I`m thinking Hesh needs to win.         &n bsp;       James

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James W Bolan
Nashville Tennessee

1. Brazilian Walnut
2.Madagascar Rosewood
3. Honduran RW
4. Flamewood
5. Don't know

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Beautiful and unusual tone woods at a reasonable price.
http://www.rctonewoods.com/RCT_Store
The Zootman
1109 Military Rd.
Kenmore, NY 14217
(716) 874-1498

Nobody got it yet. Here is a hint - some of these boards are the same species. I'm not telling which ones though. More hints soon.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

1.  Santos Rosewood

2.  Cocobolo

3.  Black Walnut

4.  Chechen Rosewood

5.  Black Walnut

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. African Mahogany (Khaya)

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Don is so, so very close right now.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

Cocobolo
Cocobolo
Honduras Rosewood
Cocobolo
Philipine Mahogany from a door frame.

So is Bill.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

1. BRW
2. cocobolo
3. black walnut
4. morado
5. honduran mahagony

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

Don-

You have one of the five right.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

Brazillian Rosewood
Cocobolo
Honduran Rosewod
Cocobolo
Honduran Mahogany

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

I'll give it a whirl
braz
cocobolo
coco or chechen
coco or paduck
walnut or koa

Lance

 

1. Honduran Rosewood

2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. African Mahogany

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Granadillo
4. Cocobolo
5. African Mahogany

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. Sapele

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Granadillo
4. Cocobolo
5. Sapele (I stole that from Don!)

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia