Helldunkel
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Hi guys, I've been working on this order for quite a bit now and I just completed the guitar!
Been taking some pictures during the building so I thought you may enjoy me sharing some wood porn, enjoy!...
First comes the top (Highly Figured Old Growth Salvaged Bastogne Walnut!
"Bastogne Walnut Guitar Wood is the rarest Walnut in the world, is a natural cross between California English Walnut (Juglans regia) and California Claro (J. hindsii) which occurs less than 1 % of the time. Only a few of these trees exist. The colors and figuring are stunning. It's substantially harder than other Walnut varieties. Bastogne Walnut is highly prized for tonewood, gunstocks, and fine furniture."
Then comes the neck...
"African Afzelia "doussié" which is part of my private neck stock which I have been stacking in my room since 2005!
The tree itself was cut down 30 years ago! Considered as one of the most stable timbers in the world, 3 times more expensive than Sapelli Mahogany, used for centuries in boat building and high quality parquet because of its very low expansion contraction and durability proprieties...
It is very hard to find such perfect quatersawn cut, probably the reason why this timber is unknown of in guitar building, however it has a very high "Q", to make things simple, lets just say that it resonates exactly like Brazilian Rosewood! That's how good it is!"
The body is 30 years old quatersawn Sapelli Mahogany (demystification: this means from the day it was cut down, dried and stacked, this does not indicate the age of the tree - there are some wonderfull stereotypes on the internet, thought I would clear things up...)
Fingerboard is premium quatersawn Brazilian Ironwood, my favourite fingerboard timber!
The first "Ipelia" string block ever created! ("Ipelia", also known as "Brazilian Teak", not to confuse with "Cumaru" which is much cheaper is one of the world's toughest timbers, used extensively for terrace flooring because it does not fear humidity and temperature changes! That stuff is like concrete and contains iron and also resonates like you would not believe!)
Ipelia decking has an amazingly high fiber bending strength of 23,600 psi. That means that it would take 23,600 pounds per square inch of pressure to break an Ipelia decking board! Also Ipelia has an incredible Janka Hardness rating of 3,680 lbs which brings it up to the top 4 world's hardest timbers....
Been taking some pictures during the building so I thought you may enjoy me sharing some wood porn, enjoy!...
First comes the top (Highly Figured Old Growth Salvaged Bastogne Walnut!
"Bastogne Walnut Guitar Wood is the rarest Walnut in the world, is a natural cross between California English Walnut (Juglans regia) and California Claro (J. hindsii) which occurs less than 1 % of the time. Only a few of these trees exist. The colors and figuring are stunning. It's substantially harder than other Walnut varieties. Bastogne Walnut is highly prized for tonewood, gunstocks, and fine furniture."
Then comes the neck...
"African Afzelia "doussié" which is part of my private neck stock which I have been stacking in my room since 2005!
The tree itself was cut down 30 years ago! Considered as one of the most stable timbers in the world, 3 times more expensive than Sapelli Mahogany, used for centuries in boat building and high quality parquet because of its very low expansion contraction and durability proprieties...
It is very hard to find such perfect quatersawn cut, probably the reason why this timber is unknown of in guitar building, however it has a very high "Q", to make things simple, lets just say that it resonates exactly like Brazilian Rosewood! That's how good it is!"
The body is 30 years old quatersawn Sapelli Mahogany (demystification: this means from the day it was cut down, dried and stacked, this does not indicate the age of the tree - there are some wonderfull stereotypes on the internet, thought I would clear things up...)
Fingerboard is premium quatersawn Brazilian Ironwood, my favourite fingerboard timber!
The first "Ipelia" string block ever created! ("Ipelia", also known as "Brazilian Teak", not to confuse with "Cumaru" which is much cheaper is one of the world's toughest timbers, used extensively for terrace flooring because it does not fear humidity and temperature changes! That stuff is like concrete and contains iron and also resonates like you would not believe!)
Ipelia decking has an amazingly high fiber bending strength of 23,600 psi. That means that it would take 23,600 pounds per square inch of pressure to break an Ipelia decking board! Also Ipelia has an incredible Janka Hardness rating of 3,680 lbs which brings it up to the top 4 world's hardest timbers....
