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Quarter sawn vs flat sawn wood
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mqbernardo
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RE: Quarter sawn vs flat sawn wood (in reply to Ahmed Flamenco)
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Hi Ahmed, Many woods are named paliander in different parts of the world. For instance, here in Portugal most sellers refer to any rosewood that _is not_ brazilan rosewood as palisander (so you have indian palisander, honduran palisnder,..). But i guess you´re right - The most common association with palisander is madagascar rosewood. All species of madagascar rosewood (there are a lot!) are small trees, so almost all guitar sets you´ll find will be a mix between flat, rift and quarter sawn. At best, you´ll find almost quartered sets that turn to rift on the wings of the lower bout. In my (reduced) experience i´d say that flatsawn madagascar rosewood, even if the numbers you find online for wood movement are not impressive, is one the woods that is most sensible to humidity changes in my wood stash. If i was in your place, i´d try to get quartered stuff and make a 3 or 4 piece back - no 2nd thoughts about it. Problem would be to find quartered sides. OTOH there are many flat/rift sawn madagascar guitars out there... decisions, decisions.... good luck!
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