Found some cool stuff today!

[hufschmid]

So my friend wood dealer gave me a phone call this morning telling me that he found some cool stuff for me

30mn later I go over and check..........

1 huge piece of slab cut zebra wood for making guitar tops!

1 huge piece of slab cut wenge which once turned into strips will be quatersawn and perfect for building center neck portions!

I also may use some of it for making some nice tops

Zebrano...
Imagine a bookmatched top with that stuff!
Looks grey on surface because its been drying for the past 10 years...

Wenge

 

[vontetzianos]

Looks awesome. It'd be interesting to see how that looks and sounds on a completed one.

 

[hufschmid]

Oh and.....

Some epic very old european walnut which has been eaten be termites 60 years ago

I'm going to be using this on a side prodject, I always wanted to build a neck with termite marks on it...

It does not affect anything its purely esthetical and must be filled with dark epoxy...

 

[vampiregenocide]

Awesome man I love the fact you like to experiment with woods. I'm sure it was you who said you were going to make a guitar from plywood or something or already had lol

 

[hufschmid]

Awesome man I love the fact you like to experiment with woods. I'm sure it was you who said you were going to make a guitar from plywood or something or already had lol

I made a pine guitar.....

And once I wanted to make a MDF guitar to proove that it could perfectly resonate but I never ended up building it

 

[MF_Kitten]

whoa! that´s gunna be awesome! i can´t wait to see what you whip up with that, seeing as you´ve already made some insane shit with only two types of wood in a guitar!

edit: i thought these slabs of wood looked kinda small at first, but then i saw the guitar bag... that stuff isn´t exactly tiny!

 

[hufschmid]

whoa! that´s gunna be awesome! i can´t wait to see what you whip up with that, seeing as you´ve already made some insane shit with only two types of wood in a guitar!

edit: i thought these slabs of wood looked kinda small at first, but then i saw the guitar bag... that stuff isn´t exactly tiny!

Its huge stuff, not very thick but just ok to make tops and laminates...

 

[MFB]

Don't let Apophis see you with all that Wenge or he may get jealous

 

[hufschmid]

Don't let Apophis see you with all that Wenge or he may get jealous

Lol Apophis must have 300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times more wenge then this little board

 

[Scar Symmetry]

And once I wanted to make a MDF guitar to proove that it could perfectly resonate but I never ended up building it

man you crazy!

 

[hufschmid]

Termited Guitar neck, thats pure epic win

Benedetto made a jazz guitar once with a spruce top eaten by termites

 

[Mattmc74]

That should look really cool.

 

[hufschmid]

updates

Just been to fetch and chainsaw the zebra wood and took some pics, I cant wait to plain the wood!

I'm going to be using this to make guitar caps, I can make 5 bookmatched tops!

If I can find a big enough piece I wont book match it and just leave a gorgeous one piece cap!

this is how its going to look like....

and just to make you guys GAS for wood, here is a picture of some wenge and mahogany stacks

second on the top is zebrawood

 

[Mattmc74]

^ Damn that a lot of wood!

Want to sell me a piece of the curly looking mahogany you had so I can make my own body?









PLEASE!!!!!

 

[hufschmid]

^ Damn that a lot of wood!

Want to sell me a piece of the curly looking mahogany you had so I can make my own body?









PLEASE!!!!!

I only have 3 blanks left and they are perfectly seasoned and aclimatated to my workshop so i cant I'm afraid....

Plus the shipping price would probably give you nightmares for the next up comming century....