What's this wood?
I'm planning a small jumbo with a three piece back of maple and this wood as the center piece. I got it in a pile of 10 orphan sides I bought a few years ago. Any help in id'ing it would be appreciated.
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| Author: | Dan Pennington [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:10 am ] |
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What's this wood? I'm planning a small jumbo with a three piece back of maple and this wood as the center piece. I got it in a pile of 10 orphan sides I bought a few years ago. Any help in id'ing it would be appreciated. |
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| Author: | Ken Jones [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's This Wood? |
Honduran or Guatemalan RW? Ken Jones Mountain Song Guitars |
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| Author: | A.Hix [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:16 pm ] |
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Looks like macacauba to me. |
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| Author: | Haans [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:53 pm ] |
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Sapwood makes me want to say Hormigo. |
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| Author: | runamuck [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:47 pm ] |
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My guess is koa. It's awfully hard to tell from photos, though. |
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| Author: | A.Hix [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's This Wood? |
Definitely a platymicium species, macacauba or hormigo. Hormigo is generally darker than that. |
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's This Wood? |
The macacauba I have is purpleer than that... |
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| Author: | Haans [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:25 pm ] |
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A.Hix wrote: Definitely a platymicium species, macacauba or hormigo. Hormigo is generally darker than that. Can't really tell how dark it is from a photo...  Hormigo...  
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:55 pm ] |
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 also hormigo...Tough to say... |
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| Author: | TRein [ Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:25 pm ] |
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The white balance setting the camera uses can really throw the color curve off so it is almost impossible to say with 100% certainty what the wood is. With all that being said canarywood is my best guess. |
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| Author: | bftobin [ Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's This Wood? |
The orange-ish color I see along with the white sapwood looks like some Amazon Rosewood I bought a while back Brent |
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| Author: | Dan Pennington [ Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's This Wood? |
The photos of Guatemalan rosewood that I can find online look like the wood I have, so I'm going with Gautemalan. Thanks for responding. |
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| Author: | cphanna [ Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:45 pm ] |
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Who cares? It's pretty. Use it for something. |
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