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New species to me

Malc2098

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I've just taken delivery of these back and side blanks for acoustic guitars.

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Bramley Apple, native to the UK, I believe. :)



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Tzalam; or Caribbean Walnut, Sabicu or False Tamarind.



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Machiche; or Black Cabbagebark.



And there's me trying to stick with native species. They came my way as a job lot at a reasonable price. I'll definitely make up a Bramley Apple, but might sit on the other two and maybe sell them on while I'm working the native timbers I have in stock.

I've never heard of the exotic two before. Anyone have experience with them?
 
Careful with the apple, Malcolm. It's renowned for being unstable, so you can expect a relatively large amount of seasonal movement from it. I'm not sure that's a good thing in a musical instrument.
 
Mike G said:
Careful with the apple, Malcolm. It's renowned for being unstable, so you can expect a relatively large amount of seasonal movement from it. I'm not sure that's a good thing in a musical instrument.
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Yes, I can see a bit already, but the back will be braced and the sides will be laminated.
 
JamesHow said:
Do you slice them in half for a back and front panels.
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They come bookmatched. That means the tonewood sawyer at the mill, rips a number of pieces from a board, hopefully close to quarter sawn, and adjacent pairs create a bookmatch. The fronts, or tops, are mainly from Spruce or Cedars as they are the pieces that vibrate from the strings vibration. They need to be light but strong to do so with sufficient volume and pleasing tone.
 
Malc2098 said:
Machiche; or Black Cabbagebark.
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I've got some really old bowl blanks that came from John Boddy and I think a couple of those are Cabbagebark, the grain is very similar to Iroko but a much darker timber, or at least much darker after it's been sat on a shelf for a number of decades. It can be difficult to tell the true colour of timbers once they've aged, I had a bowl blank of Chac Te Koke from the same job lot that was bright orange, but once you started working with it the colour came through as a really deep dark red, similar to Bloodwood.
 
Mike G said:
Careful with the apple, Malcolm. It's renowned for being unstable, so you can expect a relatively large amount of seasonal movement from it. I'm not sure that's a good thing in a musical instrument.
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I think I'd agree with Mike on this one Malc. Even when the sides are laminated and the back braced as you say, there's still going to be a tendency for the stuff to want to twist and warp. Elm is probably the worst timber for this sort of behaviour but if it's properly seasoned there's no problem with the stuff, not at least in my experience - Rob
 
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