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Lets see if anyone can name what the binding and end graft are made of.

*Steve Kinnaird is disqualified, because he has some. But we still love him!

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Matt Jacobs

"Don't tase me bro"

I don't know what it is, but I want some!

Pressure treated!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

I'm completely stumped.

Lizardwood?

Looking good, Matt. I've never seen anything like that. Looks like some heavily spalted something or other.

I liked Billy's answer.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

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

Myrtle ?

Al

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Waddy

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Is that one of those Australian woods like tiger something-or-other. tiger myrtle perhaps.

The Larch

Could that be the famous cheesewood??

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

I'm going with something desert-ish. Misquite or ironwood perhaps?

I'm with Chris. And Paul. Lignum Vitae. Also known as Ironwood, but not
Hornbeam ironwood.

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Mike

"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh." The Stranger

Bulnesia arborea.....verawood :)

Mango?

It sort of resembles Sycamore wood...?? I dunno though.. I'm stumped. Looks GREAT though !

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Ken H

Ooooh, I KNOW WHAT THIS IS!

But I'm not going to tell, as per Matt's request.

It does look cool, doesn't it?
And I've got some!

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

I have some wood out in the shop that look just like it, well almost. Its kinda hard to see it in the pictures. But the stuff I have came for pallets that I, ahem, acquire from a South American importer. I know I have score mahogany from them a bunch of other really cool looking wood. One looked kinda like balsa, but with a more distinct grain. Others, well, there has been a lot of different woods come out of the pallets. I'm make a box out of the stuff that looks like your binding. So, I'm guessing palletwood.

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Aoibeann

I think it's MDF...

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Chansen / C hansen / C. Hansen / Christian Hansen - not a handle.

Christian

Eucalyptus?

This still hasn't been solved ???

This is a tuffy !

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

   Sorry to keep you hanging folks, but Chris got so quick I just wanted to build up a little excitement!

it is LIGNUM VITAE

Chris, Larry , and Mike win the bucket O'lard

One caveat, it was sold as Lignum Vitae, I went back the next week and there was more with Verawood stickers on it.

Thanks for playing everyone.

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Matt Jacobs

"Don't tase me bro"

[QUOTE=Chansen]I think it's MDF... [/QUOTE]

Naw, man, MDF is much plainer looking than that,  Gotta be Plywood - I'd say probably that HD stuff - You know, that 7 ply, sandply stuff - It looks just like that under A good FP finish, particularly when you get a good QS piece on the edge like that...

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Waddy

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[QUOTE=Mattyeod]    Sorry to keep you hanging folks, but Chris got so quick I just wanted to build up a little excitement!

it is LIGNUM VITAE

Chris, Larry , and Mike win the bucket O'lard

One caveat, it was sold as Lignum Vitae, I went back the next week and there was more with Verawood stickers on it.

Thanks for playing everyone.[/QUOTE]
So,just because I don't speak Latin I don't get to share in teh bounty? Discrimination I tell you! I'm likely to sue. Yeah, that's a good idea, suing guitar builders. That will get me rich for sure.
Did you find the Ironwood hard to work. I worked with some fresh from the desert when I was in AZ. It had so much silca in it that it sparked when I cut it. YUCK!