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01-20-2011, 08:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | | What is it? Where did it come from?
...you can never tell what might be lurking in a wood pile. |
01-20-2011, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: behind a bass | | | Redwood from NW United States? |
01-20-2011, 09:51 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Georgia | | If I had to guess I'd say that was a piece of rare mesquite wood which was harvested from a 700 year old mesquite tree grown in the town of Transylvania in the central part of Romania.
Of course that's just a guess!  |
01-20-2011, 09:54 AM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Here ya go Doug! 
Don't have a clue though. 
God Bless, Ray
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01-20-2011, 09:57 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77  If I had to guess I'd say that was a piece of rare mesquite wood which was harvested from a 700 year old mesquite tree grown in the town of Transylvania in the central part of Romania.
Of course that's just a guess! | Dunno about the 700 year old part....definitely not any mesquite in Transylvania or even in Romania....but yeah, mesquite it is...we're kinda thinkin' it will be a good fingerboard wood, and maybe even look interesting as an oil finished top...
...Doug, thanks for sending that our way - and I PROMISE it won't get "lost" again!   |
01-20-2011, 10:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | Yes! The infamous, long lost stick of genuine native Arizona Mesquite, Prosopus Velutina! 
This board is more uncommon. Due to the twisty natural growth of this tree you seldom get a nice, straight grained cut of any substantial length. It is also incredibly dense and once cured is as stable as iron. This particular piece was completely air dried even before the 4 years it went into hiding in the Roscoe wood shop.
Thanks for the pic, Gard. 
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01-20-2011, 01:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto Canada | | | Can you send me the scraps for my BBQ? I'd love me some
Mesquite ribs!
Fishheadjoe
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01-20-2011, 02:43 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CactusmanDoug Yes! The infamous, long lost stick of genuine native Arizona Mesquite, Prosopus Velutina! | Perhaps we have a deputy arborist in our midst....?
Any chance for me to wax poetic about wood is fun. |
01-20-2011, 03:08 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bipslapper Perhaps we have a deputy arborist in our midst....?
Any chance for me to wax poetic about wood is fun. | ...what, you're poetic about waxing wood???  |
01-20-2011, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard ...but yeah, mesquite it is...we're kinda thinkin' it will be a good fingerboard wood | Yessir...it would be hard to imagine any common fingerboard wood more dense than mesquite...and yes, that goes for Ebony too.
One of my distant future thoughts would be something like an Alder body, 5-string standard jazz, Bardens pups in 60's placement, fretless/fretted? mesquite board.
Nothin' fancy, just a monster jazz. 
Know wad I'm sayin'?  |
01-20-2011, 10:15 PM
|  | Expendable | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Casa Grande, Arizona | | | If I ever remove the huge mesquite in my front yard I will have some excellent wood for several bass builds. It shades both my house and the house next door.
Mark
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01-21-2011, 06:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mwbonsall If I ever remove the huge mesquite in my front yard I will have some excellent wood for several bass builds. It shades both my house and the house next door.
Mark | No doubt a beautiful tree, your variety is most likely a Chilean Mesquite. With accelerated growth due to irrigation, your lumber from that tree is probably less stable. Better to stick with indigenous, Sonoran desert grown for instruments.
Other than density, stability and Arizona origin, the other draw for me concerning this wood is the gorgeous honey tone. It's just so warm.
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01-21-2011, 07:23 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars, DR Strings Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | Being a son of Arizona (Sierra Vista to be exact), I really would have liked mesquite to have been on the table for my latest build. I definitely would have entertained it.... |
01-21-2011, 07:32 AM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | Works great for barbecues too . . .  |
01-21-2011, 09:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacman Being a son of Arizona (Sierra Vista to be exact), I really would have liked mesquite to have been on the table for my latest build. I definitely would have entertained it.... | You bet...not to mention unique as well.
Lemme see...there's Rosewood, Pau Ferro, Maple, Purple Heart, Cocobolo, Ebony and various others for common fingerboard material.
Yet NONE of them have that deep warmth of a natural Mesquite finish.
The boys finally finding my lumber has restoked the Jazz Jones!
....not good. 
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01-30-2012, 12:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | | Hmmm...might be coming into a bit of cashola here and have rekindled the jazz build thing again.
Slightly revised specs:
3005 Century Standard Mahogany natural oil rub finish
3 piece neck with thinner middle Mesquite section (instead of Purple heart)
Mesquite Board...duh!
Jazz pickups...here's where I need some advice.
Which pups should I use and what are the sonic differences in the 60 or 70's positions?
All the best,
CMD
PS...also please share your thoughts with what the Mahogany body might do for my jazz tone. I was hoping to make her just a wee bit growlier.
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02-22-2012, 08:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | | The final (very close anyway) specs for my jazz bass
3005 Century Standard
Alaskan Yellow Cedar body with oil rub finish
3 piece all Maple neck
Arizona Mesquite fingerboard
Bart Jazz pups (60's position)
Bart pre
Black Hardware
...now just waiting for a buyer for my (Jerry's) beautiful fretless so I can start without doing so much out of pocket. |
02-29-2012, 08:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona | | | ....getting closer | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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