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RE: Got Wood? Tone wood and the Future. (in reply to estebanana)
Yes it's down temporarily. Yuko is working in it, but we are 16 hours ahead of California and just about to retire until tomorrow. I think it will be fine by tomorrow afternoon Japan time.
I sure appreciate you letting me know, I hope when we get it back up you'll have a look.
( Actually we are playing with our new cat and and drinking shochu, but it's 10 pm here and the work day is over.)
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RE: Got Wood? Tone wood and the Future. (in reply to estebanana)
This guitar is built by my american friend MAX BISHOP. He has been taking the curso in sanlucar with Gerardo longer than me, so I know him a long time. I was impressed by the tone of this guitar because even though the wood looks like "negra" wood, it's very "blanca" sounding. Very dry and focused mid range, very light weight, very percussive. If I was blind folded I would have thought it's cypress. He told me this wood, AUSTRALIAN BLACKWOOD, has the same density as cypress, which is why it sounds that way. I have commissioned him to build me a good ol cypress guitar and will compare to this one. Might have to buy this one after I get used to it. The wood looks like flame silky stripes like maple almost, but it's dark colored. Anybody else try this wood on a flamenco guitar?
RE: Got Wood? Tone wood and the Future. (in reply to estebanana)
Yeah you can buy that, after you send it to get it spayed Traffic Cone Orange----hahahahahahaha
All jokes aside, that is nice wood. It's like Black Acacia in the US. I've built with it and it's one of my favorite woods to use. Also you don't have to be in the NSA to buy or sell it.
RE: Got Wood? Tone wood and the Future. (in reply to estebanana)
The Australian Blackwood guitar sounds very nice indeed. ABW is a acacia, the same family as Koa. I've heard some say ABW is as good if not better than Koa. I'm not surprise ABW makes a great flamenco guitar! It's one of the tonewoods I'd go for if I was thinking if I commissioned a guitar;
Has anyone ever here played a guitar made from Yew? I've played a few steel string guitars which were as light as a feather. I think it'd make a amazing flamenco guitar. In the UK Yew is pretty cheap too.
Has anyone ever played a Walnut flamenca?
I've come across a few steel strung guitars made from Higuerilla which sounded amazing, I reckon that'd made a amazing negra. It's a largely FSC tonewood from Peru.
Apologies for jumping from one tonewood to another!
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The wood looks like flame silky stripes like maple almost, but it's dark colored. Anybody else try this wood on a flamenco guitar? 
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