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I’m pretty sure Dana would agree with all the other luthiers on this thread.
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get it... #1 and #3 look like weirdly formed stump wood or from a gnarled-out twisted tree. #2 looks like a random layer from a slab-sawn piece of "normal" wood. -Mike |
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The short answer would be a Brazilian Rosewood slab sawn board with heat and humidity will shrink and expand about 45% more width wise than a well quartered board. When that board is 15” or so wide and is only an 1/8” or so thick it makes a big difference.
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#2 to the metamorphic looking #1 and #3. I'm not arguing, just surprised at what the builders here are choosing. Here's my 65 year old slab-sawn Brazilian Rosewood back... -Mike |
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Here is a 250+ yr old well quartered BRW set I have stashed away:
The reason the builders are choosing sets #1 and #3 is they structurally appear to be closer to this one than your beautiful old slab cut back. The fact the grain isn't as straight isn't as important to the likelihood that they are more well quartered and have a better chance of lasting as long as your guitar has. The problem with stump wood is when a living tree is standing it is wet and heavy. The strength of wood lengthwise isn't near as great when it is wet and the wood fibers down near the stump under all that weight can crush thereby greatly weakening a board. I don't believe set #1 and #3 look particularly crushed and a bit of a curve in the original log is not necessarily of any great consequence. Now I'm saying all this looking only at one picture of each of these sets and if I could feel the flexibility of these boards, hear their tap tone, and look the their edges the choices would be much more well informed.
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And, yeah, set #2 is not quartered. But look at the upper bout of the set. Pretty close to quartered. And the lower bout? Certainly not quartered, but not completely flatsawn. So, no, not a perfect set. But most certainly not 100% flatsawn. Sets 1 and 3? Also gorgeous. But also obviously stump wood. A bit off-quarter non-stump wood vs relatively quartered stump wood? I'll ask Dana.
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That’s not slab sawn but close to quartered with beautiful ink “Landscape” figuring that many old sets of BRW were known for.
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Precisely.
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I drove two hours to look at it because of the back. If you could look at
the end grain of the back, I wouldn't think that it would be vertical or flat, but somewhere in between... -Mike |
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I’d pick number one. It looks a bear took a swipe at it with his paw
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#1 makes me feel like I’m looking out from a jail cell!
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#1 - but only after seeing the side set
(maybe post the side sets as well so all can see)
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#1 for me.....
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