Guess This Wood Species II

[woodbeard]

Nope, color and bluestain are similar, but hackberry has an open grain. This has very fine grain, no pores.

[TexasTimbers]

Harold that was a bad guess. I tried to tell ya. :

[LeeB]

Pear?

[beenthere]

butternut    :

[TexasTimbers]

Not grainy enough for butternut that I have ever seen. But I don't have a better guess. I am stumped.

[woodbeard]

Any Ohio State fan should know this one.  ;)

[TexasTimbers]

Buckeyewood! I knew it!. :D

[getoverit]

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!

[TexasTimbers]

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. :

[woodbeard]

That's a bullseye on buckeye!  :D

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!

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.

[TexasTimbers]

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

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)

[woodbeard]

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.

[TexasTimbers]

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?

[woodbeard]

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.

[getoverit]

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.

[Engineer]

That last one, I was gonna say bass-wood, but I guess it ain't.   :D

Isn't buckeye also horse-chestnut?

[SwampDonkey]

Yes and no, same family, different species. Horse chestnut isn't native.