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Originally Posted by N K Forster
When I was making normal single sides guitars I made a couple with Osage orange and I thought they were superb. It's a first rate tonewood from a sonic perspective. The down side is few customers want an orange/yellow with a hint of green guitar.
A pal of mine in the trade, A.J. Lucas has a reputation for using non traditional woods and non exotics, so a passed the remaining sets I had onto him.
nigel
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Give it some UV treatment and the color turns somewhat similar to pernambuco, though the texture is still much more coarse. Both of these pieces are from the same back set, but the one on the left sat in a west facing window for a couple weeks.
Nowhere near as yellow/green as movingui, which is another excellent sounding wood.
Osage is the most exotic domestic wood
I love it. Though it is a bit of a pain to work when perfectly quartersawn like that, because the dark grain lines are insanely hard, and light grain kind of medium, so tools tend to chatter and cut unevenly.