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| Author: | ecklesweb [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:34 am ] |
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Got a neat piece of mahogany at the local lumber shop today - going to make an all-mahogany mandolin with one-piece top and one-piece back. The wood is quarter-sawn African Mahogany with unusual ribbon sort of figure. It's 4/4, about 13" wide and 3' long: 
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| Author: | Mattia Valente [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:12 am ] |
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Very nice...although I'd call that figure pretty common for quartered African mahogany (or Sapele, for that matter). |
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| Author: | Joe Beaver [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:31 am ] |
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That's a nice hunk of wood. I just bought me some nice quartered Hondo Mahogany yesterday, enough for 8 necks. It is nice to get it local when you can. I think it will make a fine mandolin. 
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| Author: | Jimmie D [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:08 am ] |
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Ahh!! Good ol' Colco. I've bought some of that myself.So far just for necks. Nice stuff Jay. |
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| Author: | ecklesweb [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:32 am ] |
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The picture doesn't capture it well, but what's uncommon are the dark mineral streaks (I call them that for lack of a better term). Never seen anything like it in mahogany, and the board clearly stood out from an entire bin of quartersawn boards. |
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