Australian Timbers Suitable as Tone Woods
G'Day Jim, Sorry to hear that you have canceled pallet wood order.
On other note is Ironwood available up your way in large amounts or Rare.?
Cheers Bob:2tsup:
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toejam
My apologies there Bob I will need to cancel that order as I thought it was $12.50 per cubic metre. Never would I have guessed you would sell pallet wood at 3- 4 times the price of blackwood.
I don't see any need to correct you Bob but you seem to have misunderstood my point. There is no Australian wood that I find suitable as a replacement for rock maple, that includes the types you have suggested here. They just do not have the same aesthetic appeal or mileage. Also density is not always a issue to me, I have just made a blackwood neck (see my thread entitled "a most excellent tool") and have several blackwood blanks ready for future builds, it is more stable and better to deal with than rock maple but is not a replacement, merely a different choice.
Jim
Australian Timbers Suitable as Tone Woods
Richard, the one that would suit your needs would be Celery Top.
Cheers Bob
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Dix_Fix
Me personally I think some of the sitka deck quality AAA or optimum grade or whatever is a bit boreing with it's uniform tight grain patterns I would like something for my next build with a bit of character good sound but with some nice blemishes or markings to give the eye something to get caught by. I dont know about you guys but for me it is the well made guitars that look odd or different that i remember the looks of
Australian Timbers Suitable as Tone Woods
Hi Martin, A few of my customers have built with Celery and love the look of it, it turns a beautiful melow yellow as it ages Just made me remember a song from my younger days. They call me mellow yellow. And I note some of the guys in the A.N.Z forum have used it. and I suppose you would brace it different to the spuces.
Regards Bob
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kiwigeo
Ive got some celery top amongst my wood stocks but havent yet had a chance to build anything with it. Its not bad looking wood but in its raw state tonally it just doesnt compare with the Englemann and Lutz Ive used on recent builds. The Englemann Im using right now is from BC and straight out of the packet it rings like a Chinese gong.