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(formerly customkits)
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
I use exotichardwoodsukltd (care - there is another exotic hardwoods site...use @octatonic 's link). The advantage is that, for the figured tops, you can see what you're buying. Bit pricey, though. I've also picked up some lovely bits from fleabay from time to time (check dimensions carefully, though to make sure they are big enough. I use DD for most of my quality non-figured wood...always good quality and very nicely finished but they are too far away for me to visit and have no pics on their web site ref the figured stuff.
Try an alder body, ziricote or wenge top, cocobolo neck. (Cocobolo is a pig to work with- very oily).
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
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I'm also getting some walnut and I think there's some ovankol, it's dark and stripes.
Have a look at the pics in made in uk thread if you're intersted.
(formerly customkits)
Pretty much everywhere else will send you the worst piece of scrap timber they have in stock.
My local, Surrey Timbers, is magnificent if you go in person, but atrocious if you order from them. The last time I let them choose when I wasn't there I ended up with £300 of useless banana-shaped firewood which they wouldn't even deliver on a day when I was there to check it on arrival. Probably deliberately. And they are far from the worst.
I bought a maple cap from DD, it was expensive for what it was and I ended up glueing a bloody split in it, I haven't even used it yet, that was probably 3 yrs ago.
I now get my maple from Canada.
(formerly customkits)
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
It can still work out cheaper than buying from the UK, but its more of a gamble.
Give me a mo
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
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