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---- Ned Milburn NSDCC Master Artisan Dartmouth, Nova Scotia |
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I used it on a neck once and it was fine, but quite soft compared to a regular neck wood. But I would use it again if asked to.
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p.s, i went to the wood database and looked up the janka hardness of all three: Yellow Cedar -580 Cedro -600 Honduran Mahogany -900 Last edited by arie; 06-11-2018 at 02:18 PM. |
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Janka 600 for cedro, 580 for yellow cedar, so a bit softer but pretty close.
But it behaves much differently. It's structure is more like a top wood in the sense of long stringy grain rather than however one would describe mahogany. |
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ok, thx for that. i've been tempted to buy some for an upcoming 000-12 and let it season for a while. |
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No reason not to, just don't expect it to work like mahogany...
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I have worked quite a bit of Yellow cedar, though I have made no guitars from it. It carves like butter, and require less attention to grain direction than most woods. Also, it is close to pore-less, and finishes very easily. The smell is strong, and while at first it is seductive, after a while it starts to seem like it has a edge to it. IMO, of course. I do have quite a few guitar sets I milled from billets that came off the beach in BC about 40 years ago, and I may build with it yet. It is one of those woods that could be used for every part of a guitar save the bridge and fingerboard. The big danger with salvaged logs is that they can have defects that don’t come to light until advanced stages of the work.
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Fred |