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01-01-2013, 07:36 AM
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Owner and luthier of CB Basses | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: USA , Orlando , Florida | | | Favorite figured top wood?
Name your top choice for a figured top wood. |
01-01-2013, 07:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Upstate NY | | Amboyna Burl or Quilted Redwood (chevron pattern). Does this mean you'll comp me on a new bass with one of those tops? 
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01-01-2013, 07:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Florida | | | I'm a bit of a traditionalist, so I'll stick with the Book Matched Flame Maple top. This leaves the option of a natural finish or a huge variety of see through stain colors.
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01-01-2013, 07:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Western NC | | Buckeye burl. 
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01-01-2013, 07:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: West of Stumptown, USA | | | The top that was on a Big McNeely (?) for sale here about 6 months ago. The whole bass, including the top, brought about a hypnotic feeling and I had to quit looking at it. |
01-01-2013, 08:00 AM
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01-01-2013, 08:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | It's a tie between buckeye burl and quilted ash. |
01-01-2013, 08:11 AM
| | | Fodera has some amazing Brazillian Rosewood tops....  Jaw dropping, I just wish I could afford a RW top.
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01-01-2013, 08:13 AM
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Majestic Swamp Ash | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Conway, Arkansas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by capnsandwich It's a tie between buckeye burl and quilted ash. | +1......but lean toward the quilted ash a bit more. 
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01-01-2013, 08:25 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Toronto, ON | | | Ambrosia (A type of spalted maple), or spalted beech. Mac ebony.
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01-01-2013, 08:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Barrie, Canada | | | heres the Red Wood for my FBass AC6
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01-01-2013, 08:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Yucaipa, California | | Spalted Maple with a bit of flame to it 
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01-01-2013, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Dover, De | | | Spalted Maple or Buckeye Burl.
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01-01-2013, 09:23 AM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | Mottled or pomelled Bubinga |
01-01-2013, 09:51 AM
|  | TalkBass: Usurping My Practice Time Since 2002 Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | | Ziricote with lots of sapwood and buckeye burl. Really, any wood with lots of strong color and/or value changes is great. |
01-01-2013, 09:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: La Mesa (San Diego area), Cali | | | Flamed Redwood
and then a bunch of others close behind.
Flamed spalted maple
Quilt maple
Myrtle where the finish shows the chatoyance of the wood
maple burl
cocobolo
Dan K.
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01-01-2013, 09:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Geneva Ohio | | Spalted Maple
Cocobolo
Quilted Maple
Buckeye Burl
Brazilian Rosewood
Check out this link................ http://www.edroman.com/
If you scroll through his tabs on his site you can feast your eyes on some beautiful and exotic woods....
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01-01-2013, 09:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan | | | Cocobolo or buckeye burl
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01-01-2013, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: E.Sussex UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler Ziricote with lots of sapwood and buckeye burl. Really, any wood with lots of strong color and/or value changes is great. | I was given a ziricote headstock cap blank with a big strip of sapwood on it. Still waiting for that special project to use it on, beautiful wood.
Cocobolo and koa are really nice, but my absolute favourite is bearclaw-spruce. I guess that's partly due to the fact it's a great top wood for a lot of traditional instruments, violins and double basses included, and I love double basses. |
01-01-2013, 10:10 AM
|  | Non Serviam | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Schenectady NY | | | Claro walnut. Runner up: spalted maple.
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