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A friend of mine stopped by today. He was cleaning out a house he just picked up. "Hey, You want this?"




Turns out the old timer who used to live there made pool cues for a hobby. That was two owners ago. This stuff has been sitting on a shelf in the basement for about 30 years. The big pile is rosewood, two pieces of ebony and the other three are jatoba. I cleaned up a couple of pieces and one smells rather like chocolate. At least half of the sticks look like that one did before scraping. The bummer is its all 1 3/8" square and 25" long so no fretboards or full length bindings, lots of bridges though.

Thanks Mike!

Steve

Good score.

I wonder over the last 30 years how many of these were used as stakes for garage sale signs.

I've heard of book matched fingerboards...

Gotta love that! I'm working on something like that right now, crossing fingers it proves to be true, if so I will be sure to post pics

Potential for neck laminations as well.

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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.

Potential for neck laminations as well.

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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.

What kind of RW? If it's anything but EIR, you have a great stash of bridges and bridgeplates, as well as the already mentioned bookmatched fretboards. If your headstock design isn't too wide, you can also use a bookmatched headplate(I do these often). Heck, if your headstock design needs a wider headplate, do a 3-piece wedge!

And of course, you could slice 'em up into smaller squares and turn some bridge pins, end pins, tuner buttons, etc....

Excellent score!

EDIT: I just realized that you said some smelled like chocolate? Bingo! BRW! And not surprisingly, since 3-/40 years ago, if you bought "rosewood", you usually got BRW.

Bonus!

EDIT #2: for Lacey reasons, you should make, keep, and maintain a photographic record of this wood, showing that this bridge, or that headplate, whatever, was cut from this blank, and so forth. Give the blanks part numbers, even, and keep those records along with the photos. Just in case the Lacey nonsense gets worse!

Nice score and good suggestion Mario.

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Formerly known as Adaboy.......