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2 hours ago, Marcoelwray said:

@Manton Customs here's the tables. Nothing amazing or psychedelic, always hard to fake-bookmatch.

An outstanding 50 years old oak coming from an old living room table. I don't know which one to use now 😭 

@TrevorR @Andyjr1515 @Jabba_the_gut

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I particularly like pieces 2 and 5, but they all look pretty nice!

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1 hour ago, Andyjr1515 said:

Oak is, of course, as heavy as lead and blunts tools like they are made of putty...but it's a wonderful, wonderful wood - and that is SUCH a nice example...

Do you think it's harder than the Doussié? In the machines I feel like the Doussié is really killing blades and knives....

Anyway I know that the fibers of oak are a hell to work with! But like you said, that's a beautiful example, indeed (that I was lucky to find)

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4 minutes ago, Jabba_the_gut said:

I particularly like pieces 2 and 5, but they all look pretty nice!

Thanks, so I guess you like fine fibers so.... If you need some, it's on trade. Or on sale... But money, even if I need some like everyone, isn't my priority.

Anyway after struggling with wood composing I decided to make a new, heavier, growlier (huh?), Amani 5 fretted. I choosed Doussié/Padouk/Doussié sandwich...

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On 16/02/2019 at 11:54, Manton Customs said:

Have you ever experimented with ageing wood with steel wool and vinegar Marco?

Ammonia is aging woods (with just a wet passing) and it's been used for centuries in this purpose. Never heard of vinegar doing this, but you learn everyday.

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Using the Janka hardness system, here is the top ten of hardest woods :

https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/top-ten-hardest-woods/

I had a fretless De Gier with a Dalbergia Melanoxylon fingerboard and it was indeed so hard that round wound strings didn't mark it, and it's not the hardest one, but the darkest one.

And I don't trust Monkeypedia about any scientific subject or ... not.

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3 hours ago, Hellzero said:

Ammonia is aging woods (with just a wet passing) and it's been used for centuries in this purpose. Never heard of vinegar doing this, but you learn everyday.

Its quicker, more dramatic and easier than using Ammonia. Plenty of info on google, it’s not really the vinegar that reacts with the wood - you mix the steel wool with the vinegar and leave for a while. This dissolves the steel wool to some extent and creates iron acetate, which reacts with the tanin in the wood. Species with a lot of tanin in (like Oak) will turn nearly black. Padauk obviously doesn’t have very much as the solution did very little to the boards I have here. However you can add tanin to wood which is lacking it by soaking in dark tea, but I’m sure it won’t give the effect like Marcos boards.

As far as Oak being heavy...it is heavy sure, but no more than the majority of woods used in luthiery, it’s lighter than Padauk for example and about the same as Maple if you conpare the average dried weights.

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That being said, I'll try the UV neon solution. Later. Now I've got 2 clear projects in mind and now I have to do it. My router is dead, I'm broke, I'm waiting for new bandsaw blades with a amazing über long delay... Meanwhile, I can prepare the wood. Body will be sober, but classy, and the padauk layer is discreet but seems really neat to me.

Neck is on glue&clamps, Doussié and flamed maple (some recycling of the previous neck).

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2 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said:

Love the web site.  VERY professional-looking  :)

 

Thanks, Wix created... Do not have enough time to do everything myself...

BTW, waiting my saw blades to make 2 neck blanks, I've made sandwiches.

A Padauk/Afzelia with figured Oak top and my "bacon" sandwich :) a neck blank in Afzelia/maple .... Starting a mass production here...

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We'll see, I've got 2 to make and enough wood to begin another one!

Meanwhile, I've made some veneers for headstocks and electronic cavities...

I've got some figuring in "wastes"

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