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Client commissioning a guitar asked me I would like some wood that was cluttering up his garage.
Got it from his father, who got it 25 years ago.
Picked it up at the weekend.
About a third of it seems to be Sapelle, or possibly Dark Red Meranti, the rest probably White Meranti, and quite a bit lighter in weight and colour.
Couple or maybe three neck blanks in the perfectly quartered piece on top, the rest tailblock laminations and kerfing.
Sweet.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Nice score. Might be a ukulele or two in that pile too

Actually, I did notice some of the nicer stuff (dense, quartered, striped, strong medullary rays) is about 8 1/2-9" wide.
I've no objections to Sapelle, and my first guitar was Red Meranti B & S.
It sounded OK, and people seem to like it.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Gotta love that!

Bingo!

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George :-)

Colin:
Can you explain further about meranti ? I may have been calling this mahogany and some of my wood comes from shipping pallets.

Bob

Looks like the stuff I picked up in similar circumstances. Using it for back and sides and neck laminations currently. Seems denser and a bit more resonant than hond hog.

I can't do any better than this http://www.wood-database.com/?s=meranti
Wide range of stuff called meranti, with range of properties from "reasonably dense, good tap tone, mahogany-lookalike" to "might just be able to make a cheap plywood with it".

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Sound like the good stuff.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Colin:
Thank you for the link. It looks like some of my instruments are meranti rather than mahogany. I must remember this if I am stopped at the US border.

Bob

And I thought I was going to finally see a picture of you, Colin....

Nice score! Always feels nicer when it's free.

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And in a more laid back mood,

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Nice to meet you!

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member of the guild of professional dilettantes