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Post by lscg on Nov 16, 2016 22:15:37 GMT -5
happy to help, folks!
Tim,
mighty fine looking Bass! makes me want to start building guitars again.
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Post by princeout on Nov 16, 2016 22:56:40 GMT -5
happy to help, folks! Tim, mighty fine looking Bass! makes me want to start building guitars again. Thanks! Roger builds good ones! Tim
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Post by cmh on Nov 17, 2016 1:38:21 GMT -5
Thanks Ronnie, now I know exactly what Zanes roasted birdseye would look like on my super blackhawk gripframe..... and does it look fantastic!!!!
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Post by f3 on Nov 17, 2016 21:04:30 GMT -5
happy to help, folks! Tim, mighty fine looking Bass! makes me want to start building guitars again. How would someone roast wood like this? What temp and how long? I have some pretty plain maple with a few knots that would probably be a lot prettier roasted.
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Post by fanofthefortyone on Nov 17, 2016 22:26:30 GMT -5
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Post by depcon3 on Nov 17, 2016 22:31:41 GMT -5
I looked at the seller's auctions on Ebay, and he gives some detail in the body of the item description. Interesting idea, I wonder how they came up with that one?
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Post by lscg on Nov 18, 2016 12:20:26 GMT -5
happy to help, folks! Tim, mighty fine looking Bass! makes me want to start building guitars again. How would someone roast wood like this? What temp and how long? I have some pretty plain maple with a few knots that would probably be a lot prettier roasted.
well I believe the way they do it is they get the moisture content in the wood down to 4%, then they roast it in a vacuum sealed oven for a length of time. (I've heard anywhere from 6 hours to 48 hours)
I've never tried it but I've heard some guys say they tried it in their kitchen ovens with varied results. if it were me i'd set the oven between 350-375 degrees, put a small piece in for a few hours and see what happens.
i'd keep an extremely close eye on it though and it wouldn't hurt to keep a fire extinguisher handy. if something goes wrong don't blame me!
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Post by Jamey Worrell on Nov 18, 2016 15:09:14 GMT -5
Not roasting, but something I've done with curly maple that accentuates the grain:
Apply pecan stain, and then lightly sand. Since the figure is cross-grain, it'll soak in the stain better, and when you sand, the figure have a slightly darker (blondish) hue. My dad and I did this on set of two-toned (curly maple tops/mahogany bottoms) coffee table and end table set we built just before he passed...turned out great!
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Post by caryc on Nov 18, 2016 19:07:50 GMT -5
Never heard of roasted maple. But in maple wood there are various colors of wood. The heartwood of the maple tree is a dark color varying from a light tan to a dark tan. The sap (outer) wood is the blond stuff. in the stuff pictured in this thread, the designs and curl affect and the birds eyes are in the wood. Roasting is not going to put that stuff in the wood. If you guys want to start roasting your wood, beware that heating wood that hot and quickly can cause it to crack and split. You may wind up with dry wood but with it full of cracks. Why do you think when they kiln dry wood, it is done gently with low temps and fans to keep the air circulating over the wood surfaces? Here's an example of heartwood and sapwood in the same board.
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Post by mart on Nov 18, 2016 20:40:54 GMT -5
I remember reading in one of Jim Carmichael's books, either "The Modern Rifle', or "Do it Yourself Gunsmithing" about a Japanese method called sungi or sugi finishing. It involved using a torch to gently singe the exposed curly portion of the figure. It wasn't the buffoonishly obvious attempt to burn a plain stock to resemble figure but a method to enhance the existing figure. When I'm back home from the slope I'll have to look it up.
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Post by caryc on Nov 18, 2016 21:02:09 GMT -5
I remember reading in one of Jim Carmichael's books, either "The Modern Rifle', or "Do it Yourself Gunsmithing" about a Japanese method called sungi or sugi finishing. It involved using a torch to gently singe the exposed curly portion of the figure. It wasn't the buffoonishly obvious attempt to burn a plain stock to resemble figure but a method to enhance the existing figure. When I'm back home from the slope I'll have to look it up. I remember one of the service mens clubs in Danang Viet Nam that was built using plywood sheeting as paneling inside the bar. But before applying any finish on the plywood they used a torch to burn the wood to give it some color. It made a very interesting and nice looking effect. It really brought out the grain in the wood.
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