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Question about my new brazilian friend
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: Question about my new brazilian ... (in reply to a_arnold)
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ORIGINAL: a_arnold quote:
That's what I meant, you can have some slab and quartered in the same board. It appears to be somewhat quartered at the center of the guitar's back and slab cut toward the outside edges. This is really how the tree is cut and it seems that most of the board was slab cut, not actually quarter cut. Thanks, Tom. That makes sense to me. Most BRW looks like this in my experience. Is it possible to get true quartersawn (or even riftsawn?!?) BRW in pieces wide enough for the back? I mean, legality aside, do the trees grow that big? I couldn't tell about today's rosewood sources but I think most of it is gone from its original areas and only available from guitar makers that have had a stash in their shops for a long time. There are a few varieties of rosewood in Brazil but the old Rio, Dalbergia Nigra, has all been harvested, for the most part, with perhaps a very small quantity that might be out there, and is now protected by the Cities Treaty. And about the cracking of your brazilian rosewood guitar. I don't know of any guitar maker that will guarantee their BRW guitars against cracking.
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