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i was given a piece of timber a while back which i am going to use for a lap steel project.
i've just had the timber identified as Iroko from the west coast of africa. has anybody had any experience with using this wood for guitar building?
i have just learnt that if i see the face of the tree spirit in the wood i will go massively insane, well the mrs and kids have got that covered so what could possibly go wrong!
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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cheers for that icbm, my bit is kind of LP DC sized too but definately going for a basic build to start with. the guy who ID'd it said it would be too heavy for a guitar!
perhaps its the rash that causes the insanity!
i was probably going to finish it with tru oil so no issues with the lacquer.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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I made some stuff out of it, including this thing:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh143/werdnayarg/webstuf/RIMG0367_zps032266f9.jpg
I always liked working with it....
Last time I worked with it was making a neck for my son's electric uke (I'd moved onto the uke after making some boaty bits & bobs with the same wood). My wife commented that I seemed to have a permanent cold, but I didn't think I had, just a bit of a stuffed up nose. After I finished the uke, the 'cold' cleared up.
I took a small block of the wood into work to see if anyone could identify it. While I was talking about it, just turning the piece of wood over in my hands, the stuffy nose came back. A few hours later it had gone again. I fidgeted with the block of wood while sitting in the car at traffic lights on the way home, and sure enough my nose got all stuffed up again. It then dawned on me that I have become sensitised/alergic to it.
Wear a dust mask (& do as I say, not as I did).
Sadly I never got to play it properly as I was only helping with the woodwork and finish
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