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No pics I'm afraid, just a question.
Does a solid spalted beech (Fagus sylvectica 'Purpurea') bodied guitar sound any good? Is beech any good for a guitar body?
Only reason I ask is in the start of the storms, beginning of December, I got called out to sort out a big wind blow beech and noticed it was really well spalted as the roots were rotten on one side, but didn't have any rot in the trunk. So I chopped it up and that's firewood.
Another has just literally fallen down near me a few hours ago, must be the heavy soil causing their roots to rot, wasn't even a wind, just fell over. It's a similar size (3-4' trunk). Would it be worth planking any timber and storing it to take down the timber yard to get thicknessed in a few years time? Or should I chop it up for firewood too?
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I have never found Beech to be problematic, hence all the uses in food industry for chopping boards and stuff. I have made all sorts of things out of it. Like this. http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bargoedboy/TeleSideways.jpg
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Good stuff if it's free, have it. Lots of good uses for Beech,pianos are often made from Beech , easy to shape like Ash.
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If not you would not want to use it for necks or structural parts.
regards Jez
I thought about it and I can't be arsed to go through the rig moral of seasoning it, not worth the effort of storing it, plus I don't have much space, so I'm gonna chop kit up. Even if I store it, I'II never get around to getting it thicknessed. It may not be spalted like the other one anyways....one hopes.
I think I am sticking to buying seasoned thicknesses wood, even if it does cost a few quid. Or at least stuff from the large timber yards that I can get planned and thicknessed locally.
The tele's look nice BTW, just not doing it for me. If it was birdseye or curly maple or something....