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First off, I don't know the answer, I'd like to know!!!!!

it's light coloured, and smells of lemon when bandsawed or sanded vigorously.

I've used it for two necks. The mandonaught has been strung up for two months now and all is still fine & dandy, the dred I'll not get a chance to get near for another month, so it'll be October before I get it strung. I'd just like to know so that when people ask.........

thanks for any wisdom out there!!




and here it is with a little danish oil on there too.....

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Pear

Lemon wood.

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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."

Hanoi or Port Oxford Cedar!!

Smells lemony when sanded!!!

I believe that's Port Orford cedar.
But I guess considering you're near Oxford University that's a reasonable mistake!

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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."

[QUOTE=Don Williams] I believe that's Port Orford cedar.
But I guess considering you're near Oxford University that's a reasonable mistake!
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har, har, har...laugh at my expense...

Hey...I laugh at my own expense a lot more! Regularly!
But then I'm an easy mark..


Hey Sam, do you OLF folks over in the UK get to hang out at all with each other?

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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."

[QUOTE=Don Williams]

Hey Sam, do you OLF folks over in the UK get to hang out at all with each other?
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Strictly speaking, not yet , but I have met Martin Edwards at a Christian festival in Northen Ireland...a really nice guy, easy to chat with, and it was sheer bliss discussing guitars like a couple of nerds!!! Got to play his mandonaught and handled the Acoustic Les Paul he made (I couldn't play it because I am left handed!!)

So I guess it was a kinda "unofficial" luthiers meet...it's a great idea to meet up regularly and show off creations though!!!! Nothing like seeing and touching the finished instrument in real life, after watching the progress on the web.Sam Price38931.7528587963

Hinoki or Port Orford Cedar......

the pores on mine look bigger and coarser......

Ah well, the joys of getting free wood!!!

I suppose I could just go back to the shopfitter where I scrounged it from & ask........

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[QUOTE=martinedwards] Hinoki or Port Orford Cedar......

the pores on mine look bigger and coarser......

Ah well, the joys of getting free wood!!!

I suppose I could just go back to the shopfitter where I scrounged it from & ask........[/QUOTE]

Please do, I am dying with suspense!!

(And, you may get EVEN more free wood, which would fuel the Luthiery bug!!!)

Lord only knows when i'll get the chance!!

Family holidays starting tomorrow for three weeks or so then back to work.....

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Ach ...I pray the remaining time off will pass slowly and pleasantly...

Well, at least you'll get back into guitar building again, a great incentive for returning to "the grind"...

[quote]OK then, name THIS wood[/quote]

Let's call it, Yolanda!
I always liked that name!

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(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

How about Mellony!

How about Chip?

I am sure 100% and you will have to agree
this is tree wood ,it came from a tree therfore it is pure tree wood
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