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Ken Mitchell
PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:54 pm 
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A student of mine is building a pomele bubinga back/side 00-sized guitar (with Bearclaw Spruce top), and is considering different woods for his fretboard/bridge/headstock overlay. I've suggested that he use bubinga for those as well (a simple but elegant combo which I think looks super-nice), but he wants something else.

Can anyone recommend a wood that would complement bubinga nicely? (I don't particularly like the EIR that he's leaning toward).

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Stripey macassar ebony, all the way.
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My first choice would be black ebony.. and my second, stripey macassar, like dennis said

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Wait a minute...I think I just said that myself. In a different post?

huh...

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Yeah, sorry @ the double-post...

I've got some regular ebony, and some macassar. I'll put those out for him to take a look at.

I guess I shoud be happy that I finally (!!!) talked him out of the Purple Heart (!!!#*@!), but I want to keep working on him and his choices. He fell in love with a pretty piece of rosewood, and it will absolutely look great on *some other* guitar, but not on THIS one. That's the hard part for him to accept.

Thanks for the ideas!

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