The management was kind enough to give me permission to post this here.
I happened into the middle of an old stash of Redwood that was just begging to be made into guitar tops. It seems that about 40-50 years ago, a man who worked in an Idaho sawmill stashed away a lot of 8" wide redwood boards just thick enough to re-saw into guitar sets. The original owner is ill and aging and needed to sell it. The folks who bought it did so under the request that it be put to a "good use". They thought, and I happen to agree, that guitars are a pretty good use. They brought it to Dake Traphagen to grade. He separated out all the quartered stock, marked the sets to avoid knots and other flaws and called me about re-sawing.
I re-sawed it and we ended up with over 100 sets and would like to offer them up here first.
This wood was well stored, is well aged and in great condition. There are a small number of sets that could carefully be made into 15-3/4" guitars but the vast majority will only work for 000/Classical size.
If you are interested, please read through the terms below and contact me by email. kent@chassonguitars.com
Shipping is not included and will be added as actual shipping cost.
There are a few sweet sets priced at $60. These sets show the traditionally sought after qualities of straight, even grain and even color with lots of silk.
There are also some nice $50 sets that have some attractive (to me anyway) figure or special interest. Maybe some light flame, interesting color, some dramatic silking or maybe they are just extra tight grain or extra stiff.
Most sets at $40. These are very nice sets! Grain lines may not be perfectly straight and lines per inch may vary more over the width of the board.
There are also a number of sets priced at $25. These have still more "character" and can be quite beautiful but in a less traditional way. Some of these are sets that look like higher grade but are 3 to 5 degrees off quarter.
And there are a few narrow parlor sets priced at $15.
Thin tops? Skins for double tops? There are still more potential sets that are thinner. With great care and a little luck on my end, these can be sawn and 90% of the saw marks sanded out at about .115". If there's enough interest, I could mill up some very nice sets for $25 apiece.
I need to require a minimum order of 5 sets. I just don't have the time to package and ship 100 individual sets. I'll look into it but I'm probably going to limit it to US shipping. Not sure I want to deal with customs.
There is quite a variety of all characteristics; lines per inch, color, density, etc. I am very willing to try to meet specific requests and would much rather spend time with that than have stuff returned. But I can't take photos of every piece.
Also note that I would like to get the bulk of the orders squared away. then ship them all in late July. I may be able to accommodate a few people that need stuff sooner but most will have to wait.
Thanks for looking!
Been buildin' a few r'woods lately and enjoying the warm tone of the wood.....amazing where that ole growth turns up.....
