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| Author: | Graham Steward [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:12 am ] |
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I have a fever and the only thing that's gonna cure it is more Cow Bell!....eeerrr I mean Ziricote! This image stolen from Colonial Tonewoods is what I'm looking for and I couldn't find anything similar on our Sponsors web sites. I'm hoping one of them might have a secret stash that hasn't been displayed yet. 
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| Author: | Bruce Dickey [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:24 am ] |
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Another zootmeister, that Steve, wow that's gorgeous... |
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| Author: | Graham Steward [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:25 am ] |
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Hesh you have been mentioning that Jim Beam a lot lately. Hmmmm.... 
What I'm looking for in Ziricote is stuff that has straightish dark lines from top to bottom and are spaced fairly close together. Your's seem to be a bit wide and wiggly. 
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| Author: | Colonial Tonwds [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:30 am ] |
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Kinda like this? 
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| Author: | Graham Steward [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:36 am ] |
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Yeah! Tell me that isn't displayed on your site! PM on it's way. |
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| Author: | Michael McBroom [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:41 am ] |
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Man-o-man, I love the look of ziricote. Could any of you please comment on its tap tone? I build classicals, and I prefer back sets with a bright, metallic tap tone. Good Braz has it, as does the best EIR. I've also found great tap tone with a pau ferro set (Bolivian rosewood) I used on one guitar. But it would be nice to offer the ziricote option for those folks who really like the spider-web look. Regarding finding a primo set -- especially if money is not a real object, I guess what I'd do, if I'm buying the set over the phone or the internet, would be to emphasize to the seller my tastes and preferences, and ask specifically what their return policy was in the event that I was not satisfied. Best, Michael |
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| Author: | Joe Beaver [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:48 am ] |
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Brad Goodman fixed me up with this set. It is great wood, good price and Great Service!! 
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:48 pm ] |
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WOW, i love the look of ziricote too, how much is the cost range of a good set? |
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| Author: | Alain Desforges [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:58 pm ] |
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Sergio 200-300... |
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| Author: | Alain Desforges [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:59 pm ] |
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Must have Ziricote... Must have... Aaargghh, blasted WAS!!! |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:05 pm ] |
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Alain,I'm starting saving my empties man! 
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:19 pm ] |
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Nothing quite like that Mexican Crackwood. It sure is gorgeous, but will crack if you look at it wrong. Keep a botle of thin CA handy when you use the stuff. |
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| Author: | MATTRIX72 [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:28 pm ] |
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ahhhhhhh Ziricote + jim beam = bloody saw dust..... dont ask me how i know.
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| Author: | Larry Davis [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:48 pm ] |
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Look for the good stuff...well quartered and you get the great medullary rays with it  
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| Author: | Mattia Valente [ Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:26 pm ] |
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My single OM-sized set came form Ed Dicks, and it is rather lovely. Hypnotic. But oh so expensive. |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:13 am ] |
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All joking aside about the cracking... I think Ziricote is one of the best tonewoods out there. It is almost always glassy, and the figure when quartered has great looking medulary rays and tight figure. For me, it is a strong favorite. I built my very first guitar way back in '98 with it. I bent the sides on a pipe. I'll never do that again...it can be tough to bend even with a heat blanket. I have a set right now that while doesn't have the most color in the world, it is beautifully quartered and squeaks in the hand like plate glass. It's a keeper. |
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| Author: | Jeff Doty [ Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:16 am ] |
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I bought one set from the Zootman way back when. I wish I could have bought a dozen, it is really great. Unlike Don's set, it bent easily on my bender, and worked well. The tap tone is amazing and the looks are hard to beat. Larry that quarted stuff is fantastic! Graham, good luck on your search, let us know what you find. Jeff 
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| Author: | Alain Desforges [ Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:19 am ] |
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Ziricote is one of my favorite looking woods, for sure... Gorgeous guitars Graham and Jeff! Hesh, I won't say what name I had in mind for you when I saw again what beautiful zoot you had acquired... (rhymed with plucky hansard...) You're starting to have one impressive pile of zoot... BRW, the tiger stuff from down unda, this gorgeous set of Ziricote... I guess that couch is really well broken in now!
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| Author: | Graham Steward [ Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:32 am ] |
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Are you there? My WAS is getting worse and I'm starting to get twitchy!  Please check your PM's.
Thanks! 
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| Author: | LanceK [ Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:50 am ] |
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Here is a set I got from Colonial a year or so ago, its being made into an L1 cutaway. 
I thinned it to about .070 and it bent readily. I have had cracking issues as I have worked the rims, but as Don said, keep a bottle of CA handy and you'll be fine it is my favorite wood.
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:42 am ] |
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Lance--you're no longer using back braces?!
Bold move for Ziricote! Steve |
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