Once in a while it pays off for all of that looking; I'll have a few new instruments coming out of this in a while. Out behind the barn past the kudzu from my granddady's uncle's third cousin twice removed who owned a cabinet shop back in the day before his first two wives died...a local guy was selling 20 year old air dried cocobolo logs on craigslist- enough to fill my entire pickup truck for 1975 prices. 'Gotta have a serious saw to cut into this stuff; it was so heavy it took 3 of us to maneuver it and safely slice off a test run on the big Yates Y30! Pictured is one of my Braziian rosewood & red spruce A5s for comparison. The color does not give a true sense of how beautiful it is. I also picked up several Honduras mahogany beams- 8' long x 5" thick x 14 wide for about what my weekend gig pays; plenty of extra if folks need some.
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