From time to time, we run into wood that is a bit above the norm, or different from the “run of the mill” stuff...
This “Specials” page is where you’ll find it....
Unless noted, the photos of the wood are of the actual piece being offered, and will
be marked “SOLD” ASAP after it is sold...
To purchase, email me or click the “Buy” button and we’ll go from
there...
Last updated 8/23/2012...
All prices do not include s/h.
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OK, If you’re a fan of heavily
figured redwood over an old-
growth grain pattern (and I
am), you’ll love this stuff....
A special stash indeed...
Originally milled for a renovation
of the Hotel Del Coronado in
SoCal in the 70’s (see the 3rd pic
here--wow!)....
It should resaw into some beau-
tiful guitar tops, Weissenborn tops,
or archtop guitars...
The wood is extremely dry and
light in weight....
They have been stored in the
California desert for 30 years...
Nice tight graining under the heavy
figuring...
#695: A billet of the Hotel Del Coronado
stash measuring 48” x 11” x 3.25” thick...
On quarter, with tight graining...
Would make beautiful one-piece man-
dolin tops...
The pic is of the wood unplaned, with a
rough surface...
500.00.
BUY...
#697: A billet of the Hotel Del Coronado
stash measuring 23” x 11” x 3.25” thick...
This billet is slightly off-quarter, and
recommended for electric instruments.
Interesting figure!
200.00.
BUY...
#700: A billet of the Hotel
Del Coronado stash measuring
23” x 11” x 3.25” thick...
This billet is slightly off-quarter,
and recommended for electric
instruments.
Interesting figure!
200.00.
BUY...
#591: 100 or so Engelmann
violin tops
pictured here...
20+ years old.
From the Canadian interior....
Nice, lightweight wood, hard
to the fingernail....
$400/10 tops....
BUY...
#723: A nice set of resawn Western
Red Cedar for archtop guitar...
Tight graining all the way across the
pattern...
75.00.
BUY...
#751: A nice billet in spalted
Bigleaf maple....
No punky wood, but I might
lean towards an electric instrument
on this stuff...
40.00.
SOLD...
#759: Blacktop F4s in Red Spruce,
anyone??
I just found some of these cello
offcuts that have color and light
knot shadows in them...
Perfect for a painted end-to-end
F4/F5 top...
Milled in 1990...
25.00 per...
SOLD...
#765: A nice set of Bigleaf maple in
quilted figuring for and A-model
mandolin...
40.00.
SOLD...
#768: A huge billet in straight
redwood....
There is discoloration, but you can work
around it, or build with it.....
It’s not as bad as the pic looks...
6” of thickness at the point of
discolaration...
225.00...
BUY...
#769: A billet in nice Sitka Spruce
perfect for A-model mandolins...
26” x 6” x 6” thick at the arch...
Scaled at 5 sets...
125.00.
BUY...
#784: I’m dismantling an old
pile of Alaskan Sitka, and there’s
a gob of nice billets for mandolin
and violins....
Nice stuff...
8-10 years old....
10 tops for 250.00...
BUY...
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