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Rosweood Discoloration
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estebanana
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RE: Rosweood Discoloration (in reply to FERREREZAKI)
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It's probably not Rosewood, it looks like Mersawa or some other wood related to Philippine mahogany, there are many species. 1. I think the guitar was left on it's back on a shelf and that there was an object right in front of it, a plate, a vase, a stack of books and it shadowed the inner bout. Over many years UV light bleached out the pigment in the stain leaving a dark patch. I've seen this before. It happens with furniture and instruments. 2. It was stained that way on purpose because it came from a factory that also built inexpensive cellos and violins. The wood they use for these instruments is plain and the lacquer is sprayed on them in color coat and then an over coat of more clear. The inner bout areas and bottom of ribs on cellos built in these factories is sprayed darker to emulate the years of wear to the convex surfaces. So the guitar might have gone through the same factory spray schedule as the celli. I would wager the back is plywood with a rosewood veneer and the sides are a different wood sprayed with a stain to match the back veneer. I think #1 is most likely, the stain is fugitive and an object occluded the light to the inner bout section for a couple decades in some garage or attic. It's also possible the sides are plywood and were pre stained to match the back, and when assembled the binding was cut right through the stained ply leaving the hard line. This would make sense in order to keep the rest of the guitar and the binding clean from the matching stain. My best guess is just a bad fugitive stain that is light sensitive. If the stain was sprayed topically and not wiped on, it's possible it was not good stain, maybe even formulated in the factory from cheap thinned paint. More information on the date and location of manufacture could be helpful, and confirmation of whether or not it's got any plywood panels. Solution? Leave it the way it is and love it.
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