Dan Kabanuk  from LMI suggested to me one morning that I should try a set of “Lacewood”,he said that the Timber had originally been sourced for solid body Electric Guitar Tops because of its unusual figure.

He described the Timber as having  an outstanding cross-hatched figure, in a warm cinnamon brown color, the wood was dense and had a loud sustaining tap tone,and it had occurred to someone at LMI that it just might make a great ,back and side set,and so it turned out. I said,”send a set over”

Bent Lacewood on Festool worktable

The set sent to me was for a Parlor size Guitar, (I had not specified what size Guitar set I wanted),however, and quite coincidentaly, it had occurred to me ,that from the pictures that I had see , the Timber would lend itself to a Parlor style Guitar.

One morning, about a week later ,I was staring at quite the most interesting and beautiful timber that I had seen for a long time and so I got to work ,straight away (without taking Pictures of the set in it “Natural”,state), and bent the sides, selected a backstrip and stuck the back together.

It was after I had done this that the concept of a ”SHOWCASE” occured to me.

No Matter– I took some pictures and have “put up” a couple of shots with this post, which shows  the “Lacewood”,  after the sides had been bent and the back Joined, ready for the project to move into the next phase of the building process, as “SP3.”

Just look at the delicate pattern in the timber, it just looks like lace. The Photo below is a Macro Picture of the Timber and gives a very good idea of the Grain orientation and the Peacock eyelets that runs throughout the set.

.To the left is the joined back

CLICK ON THE PICTURES AND MOVE THE ENLARGED PICTURE AROUND THE SITE

Directly under this is the MACRO Picture of the wood

Bent Lacewood Pair of sides