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Originally Posted by Dave Murray
We do have a pretty good wood source here Matthew, but purchasing and shipping materials within India is much more difficult than it is in the US. We had to get so many registrations & certifications pushed through before they would allow us to ship anything so I would drive my van all over India, filling it up as I went.
The ziricote on this build came over from the US in my suitcase.
Woods that we've found locally so far include African wenge, two Indian rosewood species, mahogany (hard to tell what species), some beautiful acacia that looks just like koa, sapele and the reddest, most shimmery padauk I've ever seen. So far, we've shipped in all our soundboard stock from the US and Canada. Trying to convince the government to allow me to select harvest downed spruce and cedar in the Himalayas for soundboards, but no movement on that so far.
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What an adventure! Sounds like "Tales from the Exlporers club." I can see you renting an old land rover with rusted gas cans attached to the spare tire, navigating dusty roads with cattle as traffic, searching for the best wood. I'd like Himalayan spruce, Sri Lankan rosewood, and a Bombay sapphire please
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