Kenny Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 well, i was wondering if there was such a thing really, becuase at many peoples sugestions i went to an exotics wood store here in sandiego and saw AMAZING peices of wood giant peices of brazilian rosewood, the most figured cocbolo ive seen but also hige wide long slabs of ebony gaboon (with a nice pracetag to match!) i was mostly browsing, but did get some cutoff for bindings (found in a pile for turning, $2.50 a lb ) (this peice is 34'x1"x1") and when i got home, i noticed there was an intense flame pattern! just wondering if anyone else has seen curly ebony gaboon (sorry for the bad pic, but the figure, as anyone whose taken pictures of curly woods knows, is always better in person!) i wonder where the rest of the board this came off of is Kenny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmrentis Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Was it the tropical exotics shop that I mentioned before or somewhere different? They have good sales sometimes. Anyhow, I'm curious now if thats where you went. Nice grab there, I always try grab a couple random unique and figured pieces from the cutoffs/turnery bin to play with and use on small projects, plus I like trying to figure what type of some of the cutoffs are, not always easy. Cool stuff, not really sure on which type of ebony, not super informed on all species of it, though flamed figure seems to occur in almost anything. If you went to the place I am thinking of, check out their site often because they'll post when they have deals. In their deals they'll drop the bd/ft prices a few dollars at a time on all kinds of nice stock and sometimes they'll do sales like 10 coco fretboards for $40 and such, just gotta keep an eye out. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Not that uncommon. I've seen several pieces. But very cool none-the-less. Bind away!!! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Posted February 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 well, yeap, i went to tropical exotic hardwoods of latin america! and it took all of 30 mins :-p they had a pretty nice selection i was disapointed in thier stock of "regular" wood though but thats what th&H is for right? Verhoevenc - oops, didnt know it was common. ohwell BINDINGS HOOO!!! (thundercats immitation) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassisgreat Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 I dunno, I'd make a center laminate for a neck out of it. In any case, that's a cool score and though I've seen it before, I've not heard it referred to as common. I guess I don't get to play with exotic woods enough!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 just wondering if anyone else has seen curly ebony gaboon Yeah baby...back & side set from the personal stash... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Erik you tease! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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