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Bought an unusual looking Coco set from a retiring luthier many moons ago.
Never seen or heard of this in Cocobolo - anyone seem anything like this before?
The wood is dry.
Looks like flame or maybe bee's wing figure?
The whole set is perfectly quartered and the figure is all over but difficult to photograph with my poor camera skills.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Yeah, I remember seeing bees wing coco sets around on several occasions 16-20 years ago, when it was still abundant and (relatively) cheap.
I was mostly window shopping back then as I didn't start my first guitar until 2004 (after reading about it and looking at wood for 7-8 years).
I did buy a coco board when I was in college, sometime around 2000, for $90 shipped. It was mostly quartered, had nice ink lines and was big enough to get 4 sets and some trim out of. I remember thinking I was smart because nice sets at that time were $70-80 a piece...I still haven't resawn that board.

Need my address? I'd like it by Friday...

There's a little chance I'm afraid Joey.....

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Before my time then!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Nice set!

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That is really nice looking.

Got a picture of the sides? They might be a bit challenging to bend... curl is essentially run out (for lack of the actual term) and with the bees wing style of curl you have it might blow out when bending...


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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

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

Sides are buried somewhere behind heavy awkward to move object, maybe have a look tomorrow - it's 1:30 a.m.
I think localised runout is essentially a good description.
Thanks for the warning, I'll be using SS, keep down the water, (and call on the gods of wood bending!) Either that or keep it as a retirement fund!
Any other suggestions to help welcome.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Can’t wait to see that one under a finish!


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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Yes, seen this before, looks nice, but of course some interlocking grain figure...