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4114Effects4114Effects Frets: 3132
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Morning. Finally got round to building my patchwork bass - I'll do a build thread now it's finished. I got some random offcuts very kindly sent to me from @GSPBASSES ;Just wondering who can help me identify the woods.



I'm thinking from left to right: Swamp Ash, Standard Ash (this is the one I'm not sure about), Mahogany and Alder? This pic is taken just after I wiped it with spirits to pop the grain a little. 

Cheers!


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  • FatPeteFatPete Frets: 683
    I'd say limba (korina) for the one you're not sure about.
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 17500
    edited November 2022
    It's idigbo (terminalia ivorensis), very closely related to limba/korina (terminalia superba)
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 74494
    I don’t know, but my first thought was that you’ve got a bad case of Boring Beetle in that...

    :)

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  • 4114Effects4114Effects Frets: 3132
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    ICBM said:
    I don’t know, but my first thought was that you’ve got a bad case of Boring Beetle in that...

    :)
    Just too lazy to set the drill depth stop lol
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  • GoFishGoFish Frets: 1780
    Ah, the legendary fifth Beatle!
    Ten years too late and still getting it wrong
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 15276
    Long hair, glasses and colourful face paint = Roy.

    Designer scruffy hair, cigarette perched on lower lip, metal front guitar = Ronnie.
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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  • droflufdrofluf Frets: 4211
    Can’t help with the wood but it’s going to look great. Please promise you’re going to give it a natural finish of some type. 
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  • GoFishGoFish Frets: 1780
    Funkfingers said:
    Long hair, glasses and colourful face paint = Roy.

    Designer scruffy hair, cigarette perched on lower lip, metal front guitar = Ronnie.
    Thin lipped snarl and method acting = James

    Another American, this time a girl = Evan Rachael

    Lots of motors on show = Good

    Ten years too late and still getting it wrong
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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 9018
    edited November 2022
    I'm a bit worried that because of the grain direction all the tonez are going to be approaching the pickups at an angle, from an East South Easterly direction or at Three and a Half O'Clock, and it might be a bit trebly 
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  • 4114Effects4114Effects Frets: 3132
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    BillDL said:
    I'm a bit worried that because of the grain direction all the tonez are going to be approaching the pickups at an angle, from an East South Easterly direction or at Three and a Half O'Clock, and it might be a bit trebly 
    It's going to really mess with the people who are convinced all the tone comes from the body wood 
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