Western Red Cedar Top
This was a particularly wonderful soundboard from my Bull Run watershed flitches.
Cocobola
Padauk Bridge
So if you add wood bleach (oxylic acid) to padauk, then it makes it turn purple. One can learn many interesting things about wood from Wood industry research.
The Octagonal Rosette
If the pointy side is rotated to the centerline of the top then it doesn't look like a stop sign. I do love this rosettes but it scared away just as many people as it attracted.
Cocobola Rosewood
The back and side set was purchased in a pair from Jerry Roberts in Nashville. He bought it from Jose Oribe who had retired and was liquidating his wood supply.
Matching it Up
Those purfling lines transfering seamlessly between heel and side hide the fact that the neck is detachable via hardware. I love to maintain the look of the Spanish heel.
Tornovaz
Deepening the soundhole lowers the cavity resonance about half a step. So the usual G resonance drops to an F#.
Twelve Hole Tie Block
They work very well but one has to be cautious with the this carbon 1st string. Doing a slip knot on each string ensures zero slippage.
End Graft
Maple end graft whose purfling miters into the side trim. Maple joints with binding are infuriatingly difficult because it's white wood. So any gaps show up. You can't fill them and fool people.
Sapwood Center?
Oh come on. Don't cut it out people. It's pretty.
Tropical
I think tropical is the best word describing the color of this Cocobola. You just don't find that hue in temperate forest wood.
Tuners
Those Der Jung tuners served me well at this point in my building and I haven't had any fail on me.
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Hear the owner, Ethan Lorentz, perform his arrangements of Schubert Lieder on this guitar with Spotify HERE.