Some of us were having fun with this thought I might try it again. The link to the old thread is below the picture if you want to see it.
This newest offering might not be fair. It has unusual character from sitting around for months before I opened it up.
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It looks like Pecan or some kind of hickory.
I've seen white pine that has looked like that.
Dave
That was my guess too, but figured it couldn't be, so I kept my mouth shut. I am putting up some now that looks like that.
Tom was closer in a sense but still no cigars to pass out. :)
Honey Locust? ???
Just a wild guess: butternut.
Dave
Walnut
Nope, nope, and nope.
Mesquite ???
Almond..... I am sticking wit nut woods based on what tom guessed ;)
I didn't mean to mislead you there. I don't want to give it away but I don't want to be the cause of throwing you astray either. What I meant by saying Tom was much closer was that at least he guessed hardwoods and not soft. It is not a softwood. No more clues. ;)
Your pulling our leg, aren't you?
That is a picture of the marble cake mix you were fixing to put in the oven :)
You sprinkled some hickory nuts in it for effect.
Looks like elm to me.
oh.... I was stuck on nuts....anyway its maple if nut woods are out
I'm with Daren.
It does look alot like some elm I have cut. But it ain't.
Osage
red oak
Ya better just send it to me for further evaluation ;D ;D ;D
how about gum?
Someone is on the right track. Never mind though I said ain't givin no more clues so ignore what I said about someone being on the right track with one of the species being in the same family and all.
Mulberry
white oak, live oak, pin oak, bur oak....think that has the oaks covered :)
Quote from: Daren on November 07, 2007, 03:59:25 PM
Mulberry
Red, to be exact.
You win the crochet pot holders Daren. See the lady at the front desk on your way out. ;D
Quote from: TexasTimbers on November 07, 2007, 04:16:55 PM
Red, to be exact.
You win the crochet pot holders Daren.
8), cool I will add them to my growing crotchet collection :D
Wal now. Here's one. :)
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Sorry, there isn't a lot of character to the wood without a few knots. ;D
Is that redness natural? The knot looks spruceified!
UV has yellowed the finish, but not too far off. Usually straw-brown. The planer pull out may be a clue for some. ;)
One of the larix then?
No :( , think brownish
Closer to the true color, unfinished surface.
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Where's Jeff? He knows. ;D 8)
larch?
nooooooooooo :P
Don't forget the vitamins during the cold and flu season. ;D
Jeff and Corley and Furb are gonna have to bust open some logs on the UP woodlot. ;D
Im taking donations to go to forest school now. :D Then every time one of these guess the species comes up, Ill know. 8) Ill take checks money orders or paypal for no less than $200. Tuition is going up these days ya know ;D
Sigh............I been tossing clues out left, right and centre. :-\
Bring some spare blades boys. ;)
excessive iron turns green with ferric ammonium oxalate solution. ;D
white cedar?
Good man. ;D 8)
OK, how bout this one:
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basswood, maple, birch, tulip poplar and aspen. ;D :D
nope,nope,nope,nope and nope :D
Well, the neck is maple, but that's not what we're looking at.
Well it looks like "Denim Pine" sorta but who would build a geetar outta that. I would've guessed poplar also but you shot donk down on that. I am out of guesses already. I bet Daren will have a clue he's pretty good at this.
Looks like slightly spalted sweet gum to me.
Not sweetgum, but good guess. very similar in color and texture.
It isn't pine, but it is also not a wood that is used much in guitar making. In fact this is the only one I know of made of it.
Wadda I know. Hackberry ??? ::) ::) ::)
Hey Hackberry is a good guess. If it is correct that's what I was gonna say. :D
Nope, color and bluestain are similar, but hackberry has an open grain. This has very fine grain, no pores.
Harold that was a bad guess. I tried to tell ya. ::)
Pear?
butternut :) ::)
Not grainy enough for butternut that I have ever seen. But I don't have a better guess. I am stumped.
Any Ohio State fan should know this one. ;)
Buckeyewood! I knew it!. :D
buckeye??
I dunno what it is, but it is a rare bass guitar. I dont know that I have ever seen a double string bass like this. Cool guitar!
Well I tried to cheat and I looked through your past posts Woodbeard. You were discussing it in 2003 but I don't know if I figured it out or not. I ain't gonna say though cause now I am disqualified from guessing. ::)
That's a bullseye on buckeye! :D
QuoteI dunno what it is, but it is a rare bass guitar. I dont know that I have ever seen a double string bass like this. Cool guitar!
Thanks! :)
Look a little closer- there are actually three strings per course, one fundamental (bass) string, and two strings an octave higher. 12 strings altogether. 8 string basses, with one octave string have been around a long time, Hagstrom made them back in the sixties- Jimi Hendrix used one on one of his albums. I think Tom Peterssen of Cheap Trick first got the idea to add another octave string back in the early '80s It makes for a monstrous sound. They are not very common, but starting to get more popular. This one started out as a Korean import a friend of mine bought, and he had me make a new body for it in the shape of a Rickenbacker 4001.
Well I never heard of buckeye wood so I can't claim a correct guess I was just joking around. I just did a google image search though and there are at least two bass guitars made from it Woodnbeard! http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.peebels.net/sys-tmpl/nss-folder/after/buckeye.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.peebels.net/sys-tmpl/buckeye/&h=407&w=542&sz=62&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=uaPH-zVyPyN1CM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbuckeye%2Bwood%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.peebels.net/sys-tmpl/nss-folder/after/buckeye.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.peebels.net/sys-tmpl/buckeye/&h=407&w=542&sz=62&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=uaPH-zVyPyN1CM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbuckeye%2Bwood%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den)
I counted 3 strings per when I first saw the picture, but I didn't say anything cause I never heard of that niether and didn't want to venture a question about it.
Thanks Woodbeard this has been a double education for me! No, it has been about a quadruple knowing the tidbits about Hendrix and Cheap Trick!!! 8)
Ooops, for some reason I had completely forgotten about buckeye burl. I have indeed seen it used for electric guitar tops before, beautiful stuff! Heck of a glue line in that one, though.
You're right about the glue line. Click on the "CLICK HERE TO SEE BUCKEYE BURL BASS FINISHED!!!" link and look at it again. I can't see the glue line in those pictures, but it does not look bookmatched to me either anymore. What is your take on that? I can't figure out what happened. You think he sanded it out so much it wiped out the glue line AND the bookmatching?
Hmm. I thought those were 2 different basses at first.
I think it's just the lighting, I can see the glue line still in the bottom pic of the finished bass.
Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing woodbeard. I saw the third string, but couldnt make up my mind if it was another string or just a shadow or blur of the picture. I've gotta hear this thing one day.
That last one, I was gonna say bass-wood, but I guess it ain't. :D
Isn't buckeye also horse-chestnut?
Yes and no, same family, different species. Horse chestnut isn't native.