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My first cheddar soundboard
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ernandez R
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My first cheddar soundboard
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My first cheddar soundboard. Ha ha haa, darn spell check. Cedar, western red, not going to try for the Latin ;) So, I'm blowing dust off one if my recently rosetted tops and found a flaw. Looks like a wind check, of course I look at is twin and its there in that top as well; buzz kill. I had cut these out a couple weeks ago and noted two pairs were a lot better tonally then the two other sets. I didn't dig into it as I popped my last band saw mid cut and hadn't been able to compleat resawing the two wedges. Had thought the better ones were just a little thicker or something like that. That's what I get for not spending more time tapping them. I'm dedicated to using locally harvested woods but I'm up against a wall at the moment and thought to myself, screw it, let's get a couple Cedar tops for this pair of Flamenca I'm working up. There is an Alaskan tone wood supplier who gathers only salvaged wood and they have both yellow and red cedar thought I wood order up a few sets of the red. Alaska Specialty Woods: https://alaskawoods.com I have a general idea about what is good spruce but what about cedar for a Flamenco guitar? Densities vs spruce? Grain pitch per inch? Whatever else I might not know of when sourcing? Thanx, HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, doesn't have to be fast, should have some meat on the bones, can be raw or well done, as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor. www.instagram.com/threeriversguitars
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Date Feb. 19 2021 5:27:48
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ernandez R
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RE: My first cheddar soundboard (in reply to estebanana)
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New York New York actually, said they had too much spoilage shipping cheese to alaska, I had to laugh. I would get a quarter of the round basically a four inch slice off the berral. One time they sent me an end cut... I was afraid of it at first, like for five minutes. There is only one good use for a flippen toaster oven and that's to melt cheese on a cracker, the go to up here in alaska is Pilot Bread, pilot as in sailer, about four inches round, think hard tack. Cut a 5/16 thick slice and lay it on there, toast until the top was brown and bubbly... Like I said, food of the gods! Lost 40lbs in the last two monthes on the no cheese diet. Dairy is baby cow food and not really for humans... Going to eat a rye cracker with a scrape of mustard on it then cry... HR
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Date Feb. 28 2021 3:48:18
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ernandez R
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RE: My first cheddar soundboard (in reply to ernandez R)
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Ok, pushed the button on some Red Cedar. https://chicalo.com/cedar-guitar-tonewood/ Couple email volleys with Gerry, a couple photos, and decided to go for it. Basically he is selling hand split billets to size. Standard is 4” wide, 24” long, 9” deep. What I like is the hand split tells all so there is zero wave in the grain. The way I re-saw I can get 8 top sets but more like 10 or 11 out of each billet. $95 CAD do that works out to less then $8 a top. This is red cedar, he was out of the Yellow wide grain Cedar I want to use as Flamenco backs and ribs but I’m on the list. The killer is the shipping, for the two standard billets plus a freebie he is tossing in is $140 CAD. Asked about alternative shipping but he is on an island with no other options. The other variable is not knowing exactly the quality of the wood as far as stiffness and general tonal quality. I’m willing to try it out. HR
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Date May 4 2021 2:58:15
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RobF
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RE: My first cheddar soundboard (in reply to ernandez R)
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That’s nice looking Cedar. If you can buy enough to amortize the shipping costs over multiple pieces, that might take some of the sting out of the cost. If the yellow Cedar you’re talking about is the Nootka Cypress, then please don’t worry about grain width and just get some, if he has any tight grained available. Trust me on this, lol. The stuff I have is insanely tight grained and clear. It can make a very, very nice sounding Blanca. It smells good, works easy, and its purity can really highlight your craftsmanship. That’s part of what makes it attractive to me, it’s kind of the antithesis of the wild grained ooh ahhh stuff that people love to see, instead it’s just pure and beautiful. P.S. I believe the guitar that Simon had Anders make for him, which was featured in his film, has Nootka back and sides.
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Date May 4 2021 3:39:45
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