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20 minutes ago, ShatnersBassoon said:

Here’s some ‘Norway maple’ that I bought recently. The contrasting colours are slightly reminiscent of black limba don’t you think? 

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thought is was black limba at first.  beautiful stuff.  that's gonna make a fantastic guitar. 

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The parquet factory outlet was permanently closed just when I was passing by on a working day. We even made an extra 50 km round for it... 😠 Had it still been open I might have bought an armful of more or less exotic hardwood blanks.  Wood is now failing on me...

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3 minutes ago, ShatnersBassoon said:

The top of the guitar as the predominantly brown end? Or include some of the flamed section on the top?

That's a tough one! The white sapwood has most of the flame but there's some beautiful dark stripes on the heartwood side. Slice it and make both! Or even, split it and make two bookmatched tops!

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