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mikekeswick

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Re: rosewood?
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2014, 04:20:18 am »
If you aren't 100% certain of your glue-up methods go with some plentiful wood to get it dialled.
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: rosewood?
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2014, 09:24:18 am »
The one thing about Rosewood and/or Pau Ferro is that it is a bit weak in tension so you have to be careful when adding reflex on glue-up, too much and she goes bang.

I do have a picture someplace but I'll have to look for it
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Offline bushboy

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Re: rosewood?
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2014, 09:50:12 am »
Here's a look at panama rosewood that I got.
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Offline BrokenArrow

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Re: rosewood?
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2014, 08:58:18 pm »
Not honduran or yucatan rosewood unless u can deal .with compression cracks:(
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: rosewood?
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2014, 09:46:49 pm »
Hey, anybody ever mess with chechen? My local woodcraft has a lot, and it seems to be a 1000 times cheaper than rosewood, with similar looks.
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Offline lostarrow

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Re: rosewood?
« Reply #20 on: March 07, 2014, 12:43:32 am »
Only in the veneer form for furniture and inlays , etc. Seemed very hard ,brittle  and split easily. Beautiful stuff  when finished up. I've only seen highly figured ,so I don't know if this would be indicative of the grain on most.
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