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jeffreyyong

Post subject: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:44 am

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Hi All,
Recently i was cutting some old wood known locally as 'Rengas' aka Borneo rosewood.
and came up with this idea of using it for inlay.
Enjoy!
Jeff

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Steve Saville

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:54 am

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That's a great find - beautiful wood!

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jeffreyyong

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:17 am

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Oops! sorry! more pictures coming.

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Alain Moisan

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:29 am

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Impresively awesome.

Two things:
1- I'm jealous I haven't thought of that myself.
2- I'm definetely going to steal this 'leaf' idea from you sometime!

[:Y:]

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DannyV

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:30 am

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Some people are just too darn clever for their own good! That is REALLY cool! [:Y:]

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Steve Kinnaird

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:30 am

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Jeff--very creative, very clever!
What is the white "wrapper" around the leaves?

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jeffreyyong

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:38 am

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Thanks!
Hi Steve, those are maple veneer.

Jeff

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Terry Stowell

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:55 am

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Very creative and inspiring. God must be smiling on you.

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Sam Price

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:56 am

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Absolutely stunning.

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WaddyThomson

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:16 am

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Ingenious! Well thought out, and beautiful.

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LanceK

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:28 am

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Jeffery, that is just to freakin cool!
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Howard Klepper

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:56 am

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Great work, Jeffrey. Will you be at the NAMM show in January?

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Todd Rose

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:04 pm

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Brilliant, Jeffrey! I love it!

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Hesh

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:24 pm

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Jeff my friend you are one very, very talented Luthier - great idea and beautiful work.

Is that a Macassar ebony fret board?

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George L

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:02 pm

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That is beautiful! Very creative and well executed. Inspiring work. Thanks for sharing.

George :-)

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Chris Paulick

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:29 pm

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Cool idea.

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Rich Schnee

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:44 pm

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Sweet…you do know that you’ll have to cover the other three seasons now.

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jeffreyyong

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:34 pm

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I'm glad you guys enjoyed.
Hesh, its a MB fretboard.
Hi Howard! great to hear from U, not NAMM, I'll be at the HGF. See ya!
Well, I think for the next 3 seasons I'm running out of idea.
Winter - naked branches
Summer - blacken and burned branches
Spring - wait till I digged some spalted roots with pink coloration
Thanks again!
God Bless!
Jeff
PS, here's another different version ...

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Todd Rose

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:56 pm

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Hesh, I believe "MB" would be Malaysian blackwood.

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Mike OMelia

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:39 pm

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Wow! How cool is that? Thanks for showing us that. [clap]

Maybe I misunderstood the details, but would it not make more sense to shape each leaf afterwards? (variability, flexibilty, etc)

Mike

(never mind, I just noticed the white fiber material...good idea, way to go!)

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jeffreyyong

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:38 am

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Hi Mike, those white lining are maple veneer, I wrapped ( super glued )the whole 'log' before cutting into slices.
Yes, Todd, its malaysian blackwood (MB)

Thanks,
Jeff

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Jody

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:50 am

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very awesome work there jeffrey , thanks for sharing this with us ! Jody

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Alan Carruth

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:51 pm

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BOY would I love to see this thread! It must be the phase of the moon; every few weeks the forum dumps me at odd times. I've had to sign back in after every mouse click this session, and it won't show me the pictures.

The reason I'm interested, of course, is that I made some autumn leaves myself a few years back. MIne were tiny; 3.5mm square, and each has 20 pieces of wood in it. I made them with plane jigs, and it tok about 90 hours all told to make them. You seem to have gotten there with less effort, and I'd love to see how they turned out. You can look at mine on my web site:
www.alcarruthluthier.com
under 'New Work', iirc.
I used bloodwood, purpleheart, boxwood, and some stuff I salvaged locally that I think is from 'burning bush'. Under the circumstances I'm not even going to try to post a picture.

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Brad T

Post subject: Re: autumn leaves

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:26 pm

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Aw wow Man! That's just too awesome! You guys that do stuff like this and the wood purflings just amaze me.

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