kurotenshi

thanks guys

Hi there, can somebody tellme where i can find a tutorial to make this finish?

the site says

# Finishes: Natural Satin Sanded Finish or Sanded Oil finish (coloured)

Thanks to all, you've been a huge help.

GOGOGO!! don't even think twice

A lot of people use Oak (makes one hell of a neck) but it can be heavy. Neal Moser has used oak and it looked awesome. A lot of people use Beach as well. I've used it myself a couple of times. It's got a lot of the same properties as maple but doesn't machine as easily.

Meranti is likely a common term for myrtle which is also a relation to beach (so says my wood bible) but other than that I don't know much about it.

Thanks

So when you say it's hard to machine your saying that I need to go slowly, take my time, router at low speed or is it "you can start thinking about new router bits" ?

Hi, i'm new here so sorry for any mistake i may make.

A few days ago i was reading a site about building guitars were the (supposed?) luthier says that when he started making guitars he didn't have the money to buy the "usual" guitar building woods so he started making them out of Oak, Beech and Meranti.

What I would like to know is if anyone here had used theese woods for more than finishing (like tops and such), how the sound like, can't find anything with google...

Another thing less important is, what is Meranti??? I can't find any translation to Portuguese, nor references to it.

P.S. - sorry if the post is on the wrong place.