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Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird
Foam frets and funger relief. I knew Wade Lowe was sharing more secrets with you than with me! Can’t wait to see the results.
Yo’ bro
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Well I am not sure Wade told me about foam frets and finger relief is just a spray on application that anyone can find at Walgreens.
ANYway, there are some local trees that just sound musical when you “harvest” them for firewood. I’m specifically thinking about the red cedar (juniper) which i have cut on occasion and remarked on how each log rang when being tossed onto the firewood stack. Another wood that i have discovered lately is Royal Polonia. It also rings when handled and it is the wood of choice for making the Japanese Koto. I’m repeating myself but Kostal made at least one guitar for Jimmy Carter using this wood for the back, sides, and top. I understand it was a very nice instrument.
I have some growing on my property and since it is both musical and light decided to make some lining out of it. (My trees were small)
It splits nicely
The split logs have been drying for about a year
So there is a lot of waste but here are some billets
The rim of the 000. The inner layer is Purple Heart and the lining is the Royal polonia. ( don’t take the spelling too seriously, I don’t )