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Post by nkforster on Mar 24, 2022 23:11:47 GMT
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Welshruss
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My main instrument is: Turnstone, Wandering Boy & Santa Cruz
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Post by Welshruss on Mar 25, 2022 8:13:56 GMT
Good read, Have you tried Tasmanian ash? I have a great uke made by David Amunn from Victoria that’s all ash. I also have another uke withTassie Tiger Myrtle back and sides.
Big storms tonight hope your okay on the Goldie and didn’t get effect by the floods?
Russ
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Post by woodtoner on Mar 25, 2022 8:49:30 GMT
Thanks for posting - interesting read. You may know him but Barry Kerr in Victoria has a fantastic supply of tonewoods and sells some. You might want to look him up. I have 3 of his guitars one of which is all Australian Tonewoods with fiddleback blackwood back & Sides, King William (Billy) pine top and a Queensland cedar neck (also has the horrendously rare and protected Huon Pine for binding) (once you've smelled Huon Pine you never forget it. Alovely aroma!) One of the guitars has a Gidgee fretboard which is unusual and wears well. Barry made guitars under the Brand "Woodtone" until he sold the company and started making under his own namd "B J Kerr". BTW I'm a born and (in)bred Tassie boy who's lived in London for 25 years
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Post by nkforster on Mar 25, 2022 11:25:46 GMT
Good read, Have you tried Tasmanian ash? I have a great uke made by David Amunn from Victoria that’s all ash. I also have another uke withTassie Tiger Myrtle back and sides. Big storms tonight hope your okay on the Goldie and didn’t get effect by the floods? Russ Tassie ash isn't very stable. Tiger mrtyle is nice enough but far too expensive for what it is. I'd rather just get more blackwood. The rain was nuts a few weeks ago. We has over a foot of rain in an hour one afternoon.
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Post by nkforster on Mar 25, 2022 11:35:45 GMT
Thanks for posting - interesting read. You may know him but Barry Kerr in Victoria has a fantastic supply of tonewoods and sells some. You might want to look him up. I have 3 of his guitars one of which is all Australian Tonewoods with fiddleback blackwood back & Sides, King William (Billy) pine top and a Queensland cedar neck (also has the horrendously rare and protected Huon Pine for binding) (once you've smelled Huon Pine you never forget it. Alovely aroma!) One of the guitars has a Gidgee fretboard which is unusual and wears well. Barry made guitars under the Brand "Woodtone" until he sold the company and started making under his own namd "B J Kerr". BTW I'm a born and (in)bred Tassie boy who's lived in London for 25 years Queensland red cedar is lovely stuff but not stiff enough for my guitar necks. And its a bit soft. Though I did make a very nice bass body from it for the sprayers' dad. I've a fair bit of it in the shed I'll use for solid bodies if anyone ever wants one. The top woods here - huon pine and King Billy pine and Silver Quondong don't interest me in the least. Not attractive, light or sonorous. I just don't see the appeal. And they're actually more expensive than European spruce. Gidgee is stunning but hard to get. Actually, there is some lovely red mallee burl I have to cut up for rosettes some time, but it really buggers your blades, so I keep putting it off. When I do I'll add it to the same blog post. Part of the issue here is many of the dealers are part timers, not professional and not all are that easy to deal with - but I work with three dealers who are excellent, two here in Queensland and one in Victoria.
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