Book matched maple top

Luthier quilted maple lumber beautiful curly maple figuring through out joined and planed. Already finished in planer and thickness sander, only needs final sanding. Brazilian rosewood, ziricote, koa, cocobolo, burl maple, buckeye, redwood, etc. Here at turcs guitar woods i strive to provide the hobbyist with affordable woods for guitar making. This gives the impression of an opened book, hence the term bookmatched. One of them had an s curve where on a flat plate one end touched and lifted touched again and the end was up. But sometimes nature does all the hard work for you, with spectacular results. This tree was timbered just a few miles down the road and milled by us. It is accomplished by turning every other veneer leaf over, and arranging it such that the grain opens at the spine, similar to the pages in a book. Onepiece or book matched figured cap, premium species as requested.

Made made and custom bookmatched guitar parts for todays luthiers,jewelry box,music box,thin lumber. Not only that, but we carry book matched live edge tabletops as well. While flame maple also known as figured maple, curly maple or fiddleback maple had long been used to the backs and necks of guitars and other stringed instruments such as the violin, it was the use of this striking timber in 1958 to 1960 gibson les pauls that really made it desirable when used to create the twopiece, book matched carved tops on these guitars. This mahogany has air dried for more than 20 years. Veneer slices are joined in sequence without flipping the pattern. Bookmatching is the practice of matching two or more wood or stone surfaces, so that two adjoining surfaces mirror each other. Quartersawn hard rock maple, traditional black dot inlay, 22 frets, 15 inch radius. If the grain is straight, the joints will not be obvious. Standard and live edge including book matched woods and slabs also carries a wide selection of exotic hardwood table tops in many sizes and thicknesses located in naples, florida. Im assuming the maple top is around 38 when i say that it is a lot harder to make a good joint. We also offer thinner laminates for the builders that laminate decorative exotic woods to their body without carving.

No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. There are lots of ways to make the wood you use in your projects more beautiful, and they all vary in the amount of work they require. There are two essential keys to a perfectly resawn workpiece, with the first being the blade on your band saw. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Alternating pieces of veneer are flipped over so they face each other as do the pages within a book. The better part of thirty years ago, a group of local woodworkers organized a bulk purchase of figured maple. It deals with common themes of growing up like first love, friendship, family, and the struggle between being the person your family wants you to be and figuring out who you are on your own. There are three contrasting walnut butterflies inlaid in the top. The legs are made from a wonderfully burled walnut limb. This produces the best continuous grain patterns for length as well as width. Growing apart doesnt change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side. In order to accomplish this i bought a two inch thick piece of maple that i could bookmatch. Drop top classic announces itself with a radiant book matched flame or quilted maple, koa or walnut top that is actually bent or dropped over a carefully chosen tone wood body create a smooth and comfortable, swooping forearm contour, and it does it all in keeping with the traditional of pickguard styling.

This is part 2 of a complete series on making an electric guitar at my home. Make bookmatched panels band saw resaw woodworking. Telecaster thinline 69 s body electric guitar bookmatched. Most high quality prs guitars have bookmatched tops. Bookmatching is the practice of matching two or more wood or stone surfaces, so that two adjoining surfaces mirror each other, giving the impression of an opened book as applied to wood, bookmatching is usually done with veneer produced in one of several ways, but can also be done with solid wood. Electric body blanks and top plates used to laminate to the top of the core body wood. In this video matt shows you how to make a book matched maple top. Dining table with wane edge book matched spalted figured. Premium aa grade book or balance center plain sliced 5 inches slip quarter sliced 3 inches rotary sliced 5 inches. Logs to lumber kiln dried hardwood lumber domestic and exotic lumber live edge slabs table tops see a cool headboard using bookmatched crotch walnut see a project using bookmatched crotch walnut another project using bookmatched crotch walnut see a project using red elmwalnut slabs. Shop all northwest timber figured lumber, wood, and domestic exotic hardwoods for furniture and musical instruments. A highly figured electric guitar top whether quilted maple or flame maple is the showcase of your guitar. Any chips in picture are from dull joiner blades already book matched and glued with titebond iii measuring 26 58 x 18 x 78 air dried ready and waiting for your artistic touch. Jared coldwell of ohio woodlands offers live edge lumber.

This mahogany has air dried for more than 20 years this mahogany has air dried for more than 20 years. A technique for matching wood veneer veneer book matching is the most frequently used method for matching wood veneer. Custom solid wood table tops live edge slab tables. When i arrived late to help unload the trailer, i found these two book matched spalted boards discarded in a snow bank. Aug 23, 2017 this is part 2 of a complete series on making an electric guitar at my home. Bookmatching is the practice of matching two or more wood or stone surfaces, so that two. Look for our unfinished table tops in honduras mahogany from mexico and maple from the united states and other exotic hardwoods like ziricote, tzalam, and walnut. Quilted maple top wood looks like blisters pillows even sausages. Jan 01, 2015 for a small cabinet im building, i want bookmatched doors, and a chunk of wonderfully spalted maple i bought seemed the perfect choice to create the two distinctive 8.

Flame figured maple wood 9621 luthier carved top guitar set 20 x 15. Book matching my quilted maple prs top guitar repair bench. In this video i show how i make the bookmatched maple top from a 2 thick slab of maple with handheld tools only. Guitar top bookmatched flamed curly maple 5a grade. Ernie ball music man sabre hh maple fingerboard electric. Bookmatching wood slabs is the practice of matching two or more wood slabs, so that two adjoining surfaces mirror each other. All of our luthier material is custom sorted from the very best figure and quality wood available from our extensive inventory. Birch, red oak, maple, ash, poplar, cherry and other species of fancy veneer are supplied throughout the decorative plywood, furniture, cabinetry, door and profilewrap industries. Matched is a comingofage story geared toward those who are about to come of age themselves. This is a 2010 warmoth chambered ash tele body, with a stunning book matched, flamed maple top, dyed in a vibrant purple. This billet is ideal to be book matched for that59 lp period conversionor for that lester hybrid re top. Flamed spaulted maple face plate, cherry wood medallion.

Buy bookmatched zebrawood knifes scales, handle blank exotic knife scales wood. Sawn willow tiger maple matched sets of lumber at good hope hardwoods please left click to enlarge small photos we stock tiger maple in. Matched quotes by ally condie goodreads share book. Quilted maple instrument wood 7605 book matched guitar top set 24 x 16 x 12. Cherry all claro walnut all madrone all western big leaf maple all myrtlewood all port orford white cedar all english walnut all musical billets. Cherry all claro walnut all western big leaf maple all myrtlewood all port orford white cedar all. Custom solid hardwood dining tables and table tops for residential, restaurant, hospitality and commercial installations in walnut, maple, sapele mahogany, cherry, hickory and live edge slabs for coffee, conference room tables and kitchen islands. If you need a small repair than you need a cyanoacrylate. The cover for matched is so eyecatching and mysterious. I cannot imagine a more perfect cover for this book. How to do a sweet book matched veneer top on a strat. To me, the image is a clear representation of cassia, the main character, and the way she is trapped in her world. The body has masked flamed maple binding, and weighs in at 3 lbs, 11oz. If you want to get the attention of all the really hot girls you have to use the best flame.

Hobby wood, exotic woods, curly woods, display cases, gun cases,luthier parts. Telecaster 50s body electric guitar bookmatched spalted. In this video matt takes your through the steps to. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and. When cassias best friend is identified as her ideal marriage match it confirms her belief that society knows best, until she plugs in her match microchip and a different boys face flashes on the screen. Made this to hold assorted tea, made with book matched brazilian rosewood, teak, ebony, lacewood, zebrano, figured maple, padauk, purple heart. Bookmatched maple violin back bookmatching is the practice of matching two or more wood or stone surfaces, so that two adjoining surfaces mirror each other, giving the impression of an opened book. Telecaster thinline 69 s body electric guitar book matched. The color and pattern in the wood was fine, shipping condition was good, but the slabs themselves were warped way out of shape. Onepiece or book matched figured drop top or carve top, premium species as requested i. Maple all myrtlewood all port orford white cedar all english walnut all figured lumber. One piece hard rock maple core with a flamed spaulted maple book matched top. One the homepage of mlp there is a 07 r9 lemondrop that has a flitch top, the owner says, but it looks book matched to me so i must be missing something here.

Make offer 34 very curly book matched flamed tiger maple guitar top 011102b. Veneer cuts rotary peeled rotary red oak whole piece face shown below an entire log is placed into a lathe and rotated in uninterrupted contact with the lathe knife, resulting in a cut that roughly parallels the growth rings to produce a bold and often variegated grain pattern. But as you carve into the wood to get the curvature of a carved top guitar the grain may not always run straight the whole way through giving some bookmatched guitars an off look. Tiger maple walnut book matches walnut lumber walnut lumber matched sets walnut qrt.

Spalted silver maple with match book top and contemporary iron base. Bookmatched guitar tonewood top sets, curly maple, quilted. All of our luthier material is custom sorted from the very best figure and quality wood. Featuring a contoured body with a 43mm nut width and 10 radius, the sabres roasted maple neck is seriously comfortable to play. Live edge walnut, cherry, maple, elm, oak, and other domestic hardwoods for sale at great prices. Make offer maple burl wood 10922 luither natural f hole book matched guitar top set.

We love book matched maple tops and it is a standard feature of the texas toast challenger. Its natural in any wood species that has any visible figuring. Maple heartwood is so low in content that it is rarely available in sufficient. Wormhole ripple maple wood luthier supply bookmatch guitar wood top set. Tonetech ltd provides luthier supplies, luthier tools, guitar paint and nitrocellulose lacquers across the uk and europe. Rusch guitars introducing the artista for decades, rik. Supplier of high quality tonewoods specializing in figured maple and exotic hardwoods. The book matched figured maple top is adorned with natural binding. If you are lookin best glue than you should find the hide glue, as it is primary adhesive choice for most types of woodworking but mainly relates to furniture. Get the best deals on quilted maple when you shop the largest. Hardwood veneer whole piece, book matched, slip matched. Live edge walnut top, outside pieces are book matched. Architectural end matching, where leaves are individually book or slip matched, first endtoend and then sidetoside, alternating end and side.

Capable of a lively tone, loaded with dynamics, the sabre delivers both articulate clarity and superior sustain. We understand that some people want to see a picture before purchasing so as time allows we post some of our available tops below. You can have a billet of maple that after being flatsawn is perfectly bookmatched. Curly maple wood knife scales handle pair, knifemaking.

Continuous pieces of veneer peeled from a log using a rotary process. Matched, the society officials have determined optimal outcomes for all aspects of daily life, thereby removing the burden of choice. The top is made from a pair of spectacularly flamed book matched live edge maple slabs. Monkeypod qs ribbon grain 2 pc book matched top kd 516 x 14 x 21. Guitar top wood a highly figured electric guitar top whether quilted maple or flame maple is the showcase of your guitar. I will list grain orientation for neck blanks, and describe defects in all ads.