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I have a beautiful set of Tineo (Indian Applewood / Weinmannia trichosperma I believe), very rare in acoustic guitar sizes, although apparently sometimes used for bass neck laminations.
Information is sparse on the net concerning bending properties (steam bending) for this species, and it seems to be stiff and brittle.
Does anyone here have any experience with it, or know of it being used for acoustics?

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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.

Hey Colin, not of much help I'm afraid, but can you post some pics of it? I'm curious... Here we call Indian appletree to jujuba (Ziziphus jujuba), which has a very beautiful creamy wood. It comes from Asia, though.

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I built a baritone ukulele with tineo B&S. It worked out very well and is my main player at the moment.

Here's a thread on it:

http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum ... o-Baritone

Miguel, I stickered the wood and can't really dig it out just now, but here's a pic of some with similar stripes (the darker ones) to mine.

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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.

Hi David. Nice uke.
Interesting to hear yours was easy to bend.
I see thistle 3585 posted a reply saying he had major problems. I couldn't see the picture of the wood he was tying to bend (I'm not registered) - is it similar to above pic I posted?

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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:

Mine looks very much like the picture you posted. The picture that thistle put up looks very different.

I have more of of this and will certainly build with it again.

David