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You may be interested in knowing that 3 and 4 piece backs are quite common!

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Definitely consider a multi-piece back. Most of the (recent history) Madagascar rw backs have been made up of four pieces. If your old Brazilian has nice grain structure, it should be easy to rip down some of those 4+ inch wide pieces and get a nice matching grain at the pairing of two pieces. Done properly, you can't tell and it will make use of all matched age wood in you instrument.

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Hank Mauel

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Are you asking if anyone here would be interested in building you a guitar out of this material? Are you selling it?

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Steve:
Your guitar looks even better here! Very nice job. How are you? I'd presume you are onto your second guitar?!
Kris Chae

PS We met at Ray Lee's house.

Art Overholtzer was so committed to having the grain well quartered in his guitars that he would cut his Brazilian rosewood on the quarter and then glue up backs that had as many as 6 pieces. They all looked and I understand sounded great. Hopefully they all held together as well.

I amy be interested
john

Try washing them down with naphtha...it will highlight the grain and colors, clean off the years of dust and do no harm to the wood. It will flash off fairly rapidly, so be ready to photo immediately after applying the liquid. Try to use as much natural light as possible for truer color rendition.

Don't cut anything in half yet. A 4"x42" piece would maybe yield 4 good cuts for 2 back sets (each back 20+ inches long) or 2 sets of sides about 33-34" long plus headstock overlays...if you are a good resawer. But, an 80+ inch long x 4"+ wide would allow a luthier to build an instrument from the same piece...4 pieces for a back, a side set, a fingerboard, a bridge and a headstock overlay with a bit left over to make some bindings for another project.

I'd be interested in buying some based on color/grain details.

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Hank Mauel

Mr. Rosewood, it's my opinion as a long standing member here of the OLF that you do not have a right to come in here and offer your wood for sale. We already have a very very long list of suppliers here who do deserve our business as they help support this fine group of guitar builders, not only with their offerings of wood and other great guitar building aid, but by also supporting this great forum's existence by paying for their advertising.

You joined up yesterday to give yourself free advertising for some (albeit fine material) wood that you want to sell.

I would first suggest contacting the Administration of this forum, paying them some deserved fee so you can advertise on the forum, than repost your ware's for sale pending the approval of the owners of this site.

Effectively you've just taken potential sales away from our fine group of sponsors.

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Rosewood... you have a PM.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

Dont know what happened with the font size. 

But I didn't mean to shout.

No worries Rosewood, just looking out for our community here.

I do hope that that beautiful wood will get used for some excellent guitars and guitar parts, that's what your heart wanted for it.

I sincerely wish the best for this forum and not knowing you, I wanted to protect our sponsors best interest first.

Having said that, I'm sure your pm box will fill quickly with questions and request to purchase.

All the best.

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"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

I wonder how many PM's you've had already... Is it all gone?

Tisk tisk...

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

Well said Hesh.

Also, I find that although there isn't a 'specific' rule written in stone about selling anything on this forum, (I believe there is a certain pride in the very few rules and regulations we do have) the simple fact that our sponsors PAY to advertise on the OLF is matter enough to make this a non-issue.

How about that handle?

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

What is this 'rose' wood of which you speak?

I don't see this as competing with Forum sponsors. It's a special stash and he wants to do something good with it,.

Send me a 4" wide board and I'll build the best guitar I can with it and pass the deal on to a good musician. If you wish.

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

Rosewood, you sound like a good man. I don't know if you are aware of who Howard Klepper is, but when he tells you he will build the best guitar he can with some great wood that you have been saving for just the right project, you can be sure it will be very special. I advice you to take him up on his offer; this is the one you have been waiting for all these years.

I am looking forward to seeing the outcome of this.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

I agree with Arnt. If you are looking for the type of builder that will be in the Smithsonian, Howard is your man. He'll do you proud with his creative work.

Personally, I don't think anyone, unknown to the forum, should be able to sign up one day and sell wood the next day, unless they are a paid sponsor. Anybody could do that and take your money and run, and you don't even know their name.

Ron

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Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

There *IS* a specific rule about this. If you are not a sponsor you can't sell in our forums without clearing it through us first.

We are not unreasonable people, but we have to keep a handle on this or it will quickly get out of control. Nobody "jumped on" Rosewood. In fact I sent him a nice note and invited him to let us help him sell this wood through our normal process. To insinuate otherwise is not accurate.

When John Mayes sold that stuff through the threads he came to us first and we helped create a format for that.

The sponsors come onboard with the clear purpose that they want to sell their wares to our community. There is no pretense about that. Many of us work with them nearly exclusively... Some of this is because they provide great products and services, and some is because we have become friends with many of them -- and everybody likes doing business with friends.

If we allow anyone to show up and sell items in our threads two things are going to happen. 1) The forum will quickly be overrun with people with something to sell, and 2) The sponsors will no longer see a value in paid sponsorship and they will leave.

We previously ran a "swap meet" for just these kind of scenarios and I feel that is a format that is congruent with the needs of both the community and the advertisers.

Lance and I have been talking about putting another one of these together, but we want to clear some of the projects off of our plate first.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

But you do have the Luthier's Auction which I thought was designed specifically for issues like this.

As with Hesh, I am still unclear of the intensions of Mr. Rosewood. But judging by the activity.....the wood should be available as sets soon...??

Shane

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