Special Projects -
What I would like to achieve by this EXERCISE is an appreciation,by the reader, of some of the finest and Exotic Timbers in the World, suitable for use in the building of fine Guitars.
The Timbers SHOWCASED may not necessarily be a Tone wood, they may well be featured for their properties as a binding Timber, as indeed is the first Timber that I have sought to SHOWCASE.
You may access these individual Special Projects and follow the process entirely using the sub-categories below – SPECIAL PROJECTS, on the left menu.
Special Project #1 – Of interest Palo Escrito, is a fine Tone wood and later in this series I will use a back and side set of this Timber to build a Guitar, but for the present I want to concentrate on the use of this Timber as a Binding Timber, between two of our most commonly used Timbers by Luthiers ,Rosewood and Sitka Spruce.
Special Project #2 – Next I will build a Cutaway OM with Malaysian Blackwood sides and back , and use one of my FAVORITE top Tone woods from Northern California, the Sequoia Redwood from the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Special Project #3 – I will build a Parlor Guitar with a slotted headstock from the delicate and exquisitely marked Timber, Lacewood.
I will start of in the “Woods” Category ,so that I can talk a little about the Timber itself and why I have chosen it to SHOWCASE.
The “Project” will then be classified as a “Special Project” and transfered over into that Category, until the “Project” is finished.
For the Purposes of the exercise the individual “Projects” will be called:
“SP 1.” —- INDIAN ROSEWOOD OM
“SP 2.”—–LACEWOOD PARLOR GUITAR
“SP 3.” —- MALAYSIAN BLACKWOOD CUTAWAY
