I'm working on building up my stock of old woods. I just got this shipment of Honduran Mahogany. It is 150+ year old sinker wood from Belize. It is being brought up with ropes from old logging rivers and processed by the local population in small boats. This is all being done in a noninvasive manner and is making available some beautiful old growth Mahogany.
I am trying to source as much 100 yr+ woods as I can for my new Woodsman guitars. I'm carefully going through it and selecting out the best cuts for backs and sides and the smaller pieces will be for necks, as well as neck and heel blocks. The even smaller pieces will go to side braces. The really gnarly wood goes to headstock top and back plates.
Here is one of the first back and sides sets I cut today:
