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bloodwood for bridge/fingerboard?
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wfrancis86
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bloodwood for bridge/fingerboard?
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I've been browsing through the archives using the search function, learning tons of new stuff (thank you everyone for your willingness to share and collaborate with us novices). So, for my first build I got a bloodwood bridge blank and also a bloodwood fingerboard through LMI. When I chose that wood for those pieces I was thinking much more aesthetically than practically and now I see that bloodwood is not just dense, but incredibly dense (.95 specific gravity, versus .75 for Rosewood). Comparable to snakewood. I read a post from Anders (I believe) where he said he would not use snakewood (or bloodwood I am assuming) as bridge material because it would be impossible to get it down to the appropriate weight. And with the fretboard being an even bigger piece.... Can I thin the fretboard a bit more than the plans call for to shave weight? I am using Courtnall's 1933 Santos plan Can I make the bridge a bit lighter/thinner (considering bloodwood is stronger than Indian Rosewood, from what I understand)? Or, should I just forget the bloodwood and go pick up something else for the bridge/fingerboard? In terms of aesthetics, I didn't want to go the traditional route of spruce/cypress and rosewood binding. I am looking to get a natural-looking white and red (and a bit of black) theme going. The soundboard and neck is Port Orford Cedar, and the back/sides are Monterey Cypress. I also ordered ebony pegs from LMI, so maybe a black colored wood would look nice for the bridge and fingerboard. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, William
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Date Jul. 9 2012 13:15:58
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wfrancis86
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RE: bloodwood for bridge/fingerboard? (in reply to wfrancis86)
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You've got a point, and that's why I am going forward with the POC top and neck (also because of my budget). Yeah, I'm not going to be reproducing the sound of Santos Hernandez (this aspiration that some builders have is simply unrealistic), but who's to say this tonewood won't produce a "nice" side, maybe not Hernandez, maybe not traditional flamenco blanca sound, but it can still be "nice". On the other hand, I don't think anyone was saying don't do it, they were just saying that the POC they have handled didn't seem to be cut out for a blanca in terms of what they expect and like to hear from a blanca (they wouldn't do it; Estebana is thinking about it). So one side I want to experiment a bit (even though it is my first guitar build), but I do have a sound and feel in my mind and so the feedback about the bloodwood as a fingerboard and bridge was very useful. I simply don't have the experience to know these kinds of things and so I come here and listen to what the tried and true experts have to say in order to get educated and orientated... doesn't mean I am going to do everything they suggest. A luthier (better said, any artist) needs to find their own voice, and after trial and error (and some wasted money) I think people can find their voice. I think this is what HemeolaMan is saying.
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Date Jul. 11 2012 1:34:54
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