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#21
Nice picture. Not to be confused with Aussie or Brazilian Lacewood, although that door does look a lot like it. If I'm not mistaken, in the UK they call maple "sycamore" so the preferred term should probably be planetree. Anyone seen examples of this wood used in guitarmaking?

Local and sustainable can be a lot of fun if you get hooked up with the right sawmill!
 
#22
We used to use American Sycamore (Platinus occidentalis) for building paint grade cabinet doors and also produced many different types of molding out of it. It worked very well and the grain wasn't a deep rider...ei... oak or ash, it was more like poplar, willow, or basswood.
 
#23
So, if I followed the thread correctly, the answers are:

1) Cherry
2) Cherry
3) Sassafras
4) Sycamore
5) English Walnut

Thanks, for posting a fun quiz, FBB, and I certainly hope that you will bump the thread from time to time in the future as you begin to use the wood. It will be fun to see what it turns into.

Joe
 
#24
FBB Custom said:
Nice picture. Not to be confused with Aussie or Brazilian Lacewood, although that door does look a lot like it. If I'm not mistaken, in the UK they call maple "sycamore" so the preferred term should probably be planetree. Anyone seen examples of this wood used in guitarmaking?

Local and sustainable can be a lot of fun if you get hooked up with the right sawmill!
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Yes, our Sycamore is actually a Maple (acer pseudoplatanus). Also I believe our Lacewood is a different species than your Sycamore. I could be wrong but most of the tops I have seen with Lacewood I assumed were London Plane (perhaps incorrectly). Theres a bunch if you google lacewood top guitar.
 
#25
#26
mmmm Sassafrass :hyper: I sure wish it was native locally, as I really liked these tree when we lived back East

I also wish I had a reliable source for it in 6/4 and/or 8/4, because I'd use it on a regular basis as a reasonable Ash substitute ... or to simply run a piece thru the drum sander a couple times right before a client visits the shop (I currently use Spanish Cedar before a customer visit to mask off the quirky Alder smell)


all the best,

R
 
#27
I actually don't mind alder. But similar concept to baking cookies before you show a house. Is there much birch on the west coast? That would work, too. You could run camphor or imbuya if you don't want your customer to stay too long. ;)

Anything this guy has is on a whatever-falls-in-someone's-yard basis. I should probably go back and buy more sassafras....
 

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