The third Dryad I have in the works is White Mountains Red Spruce on torified Sugar Maple:
I've been working on the back on this one. We are going with a Sugar Maple back strip. In order to get contrast we're going with Sugar Maple with a much different history. We'll use Maple wood from old sugar trees such as these:
Here is the billet of wood I got from such a tree:
As you can see the tap holes are still in the wood. With age and ants getting their bellies full of sap and leaving a special little something behind you can see how that kicked off the spalting in the tree.
I cut out a good section that would contrast with the back and have some interesting color and figure:
We landed on a shape for the back strip:
And here we have it:
You just don't get much more Northeastern than Sugar Maple and we even included a tap hole
While I was at it I branded a spalted Sugar Maple wood logo chip for inside the guitar:
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