Black Locust 000

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Skarsaune
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Black Locust 000

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In the beginning….

There was wood -
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I have a thing for local/native wood, and had always heard that Black Locust was a really good tonewood. So I kept my eyes open and a wood hoarder in Asheville had some nice air dried QS Black Locust. Off I went….

Nice straight grain, fairly plain appearance.
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Billets cut for set resawing
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Skip ahead about a dozen cracked sides, and you get to this point…
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The back completely inverted on me at one point. Humidity change was what I blamed. The guitar did get named “tater chip” at this point. Chisel/plane off all the braces and do over, in the opposite orientation
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Early fuming experiment. Fairly green.
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Piecework rosette - walnut, cherry, spalted maple I think.
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Re: Black Locust 000

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Neck is a pretty standard stacked blank with the head scarfed. Wood was Frazier magnolia from a tree that came down on our property and I sawed up years ago.

I did cut the neck shaft on the CNC
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Found a nice pics of walnut for a head plate. Inlay was done in the CNC, filled with MOP flakes.
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