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look at this one. This is a relatively dark cypress (it can be darker), which has been polished with the clearest of shellacks. Imagine this with a yellowish french polish and some 20 years old, which always darkens cypress. There´s something in the grain that says cypress, but if it is cypress, your nose will tell you.
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This is why artificial looking orange guitars give me the heebie geebies. This is what those over bearing finishes of forced color are trying to emulate. A very well oxidized old mellow golden brown which only time can give you.
Beautiful guitar.
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very few sets of cypress will age to this color. Most will be a LOT paler. This is truly an exeption. I was lucky to find some dark cypress from a tree in Cadiz province, because i looked around in the 3rd grade sets. They were all to small, so a wide centerpiece was necesary
I make orange guitars because I have clients requesting orange guitars. I also kind of like them, but I prefer the color of this guitar. But I would like to see a neutral color of this instrument, there are very different white balance in the photos. 2 are very orange and 1 is very brown. So its kinda difficult to know what reality is.
How does it smell? I often trust my nose more than my eyes. Sometimes you can get local cypress which is very dark.
This is true however, if I was not a builder myself, smelling would not help me as I would not be familiar with the scents of various woods other than probably cypress.
The middle shot makes me think of what was going around as Santos rosewood or one of other heavy rosewoods from Brazilian that is not D.Nigra. Does anyone remember Fullman's rosewood (Eugene Fullman, I think I have that name right)
I have a board that looks something like that, with the pale heartwood and reddish brown color. It's heavy and kind of waxy.
This is why artificial looking orange guitars give me the heebie geebies. This is what those over bearing finishes of forced color are trying to emulate. A very well oxidized old mellow golden brown which only time can give you.
Beautiful guitar.
No, tomatoes are cool flamenco foods, it's a cool color.
Anyway, this guitar back and sides is clearly brazillian tulipwood. Cypress?? pffff
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No its not Brazilian tulip wood, Pau Rosa; it's too closed grain. The back, braces and sides all of Tulipwood, would make that guitar a tank; I'm betting it isn't that heavy. It's dark Cypress, similar to what some are selling and calling Cypress Violetta.
Now that I think of it, I once bought some Monterey cypress that was quite dark, as in yellowish brown and very stiff, as in almost like maple. Neither attribute is something I would normally associate with Monterey but there you go
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