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  1. 27th February 2010, 05:41 PM #1
    MatthewK
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    Default Silly question - small block of alder?

    Thanks for previous help - just a silly question which reflects my total lack of experience. I need a bit of alder to fill some routs and re-rout the neck pocket on a bass body I'm adapting for a project. I don't have the first idea where I'd get hold of a little piece to cut some filling blocks - I'd only need about 15x15cm, 2cm thick. My local hardware store people looked pretty blank when I said "alder", but that's what I need since the rest of the body is alder.

    I'm in Hobart so my last wood enquiry led to a recommendation for Tas Tonewoods, but their site doesn't list alder. Thanks for any pointers.
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  3. 27th February 2010, 06:22 PM #2
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    Contact a local arborist or someone who removes trees that knows what he is cutting. I would remove an Alder every second week.
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  4. 27th February 2010, 06:34 PM #3
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    My thoughts also, they get cut down here in tassie all the time.

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    Contact a local arborist or someone who removes trees that knows what he is cutting. I would remove an Alder every second week.
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  5. 27th February 2010, 10:56 PM #4
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    Hm, interesting idea - but how long would it take to be usably dry?
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  6. 28th February 2010, 12:10 AM #5
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    20mm thick summer time ~4 weeks to air dry. Faster with heat or microwave. Or you could ask for a dry bit I cut down a dead one this week. I have a couple of slabs here been in the shed for 10 years kept them for some one who was going to make electric guitars and wanted to do it from a single piece.
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