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PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:12 pm 
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Brazilian Rosewood
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First name: Ed
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That's great. Can I give you the access code to my TFSA to collect and bring back? I could do with a bit of readies...


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:47 am 
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Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Just torrified my bagel..... yum, yum.... ;)


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:03 am 
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I accidently Torrefied a set of Koa sides in my bender several years back. I don't think it helped the sound, but after I scraped and sanded the charred wood, it did look good. Made a fine guitar.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:36 am 
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I've been doing some home experimental work with Torrefied wood. I must say that I've been most impressed with the results, both sonically and with the spectacular effects it has on the cross grain structure. Hard to beat this kind of figure.
Slap a bit of varnish on top and it instantly avoids that horrid, hard glass like look that you see on many Guitars. Violin makers would love even my amateur torrefication attempts.
What's not to like?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:41 am 
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Nice Michael - I'll bring some steaks and we can use that torrified wood to grill outside! ;)


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:47 pm 
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By the way just a quick follow up to the 2065 tops, I know there was a thread about fossilized mammoth ivory and some states have at present banned it. However, about 40 years from now an Alpaca farmer living just outside the finger lakes region in NY decided to clone a pair of Wooly Mammoths to increase revenues at the farm by attracting tourists. In any case, it took them only 10 years to over-populate, cross the Hudson and infiltrate Manhattan. These Mammoths are wrecking havoc on the citizens of NYC now that all firearms have been banned under the NYS SAFE Act V. So, any law related to Mammoth Ivory has been repealed and it is open season on these behemoths, typically taken by open pit traps where abandoned subways tunnels are located. Next trip I can bring some of this material back with all proper documentation that it indeed post ban ivory. And for what its worth, mammoth is delicious.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:26 pm 
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Hi Michael,
It looks like you got the color right for fingerboards.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:32 pm 
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MUST...GET...MORE!!!


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:38 am 
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Koa
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Clay S. wrote:
Hi Michael,
It looks like you got the color right for fingerboards.


Oddly enough I did that, around 3 or 4 years ago. I was looking for an alternative to Ebony, so I tried wrapping an Oak 'fretboard' in foil and baking it in a domestic oven. It wasn't over cooked but I got it to look like a very dark Rosewood. That colour was to a decent depth as well. I put the board in the workshop and I was going to monitor it to see if it was prone to cracking, cupping ect. I lost interest and somehow that fretboard was lost, probably went in the firewood pile. It seemed OK approx. 6 months after the 'treatment'.
There may be some mileage in the process for alternative fretboards. I have some very Black bog Oak and from a yard away pretty much all would think it was Ebony. I doubt many players would be able to tell the difference, it's only the open pores that give it away.


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