Got me thinking about some of the wood in my stash and I went digging
I was thinking of some cocobolo that had "voids" similar to some of those in the Nakashima table tops, and how I might work that into a guitar.
So I found a cool billet and cut these sides
I plan to bend these and clean up the edges of the voids so they will function as soundports
A closer look
Now for a back. I went through all my stacks of resawed cocobolo backs and did not find anything that would work. Seems like when I am looking for flawless stuff, I find lots with "defects", but..... So, anyhow, I dug through a bunch of uncut boards and planks, but still nothing that I was satisfied with. So I remembered this stack of back billets from logs I bought 9 or 10 years ago. I had resawed many of the better ones, but there were about a dozen and a half 3" or so thick ones that had flaws in one face. Checking these showed most of them to be better than I had remembered, but I found one that when I cut 4 slices off, the last 2 seemed workable.
So here is the back set that I plan to use
And a closer look to better show the voids
Don't panic over the colors of any of this wood. I just resawed all of this yesterday and it has not begun to oxidize .
I will be using a few butterfly keys across some of the voids as needed to stabilize, playing things mostly by the seat of my pants as I go along. Should be interesting.
Oh, and so far here is the top that I might use.
Stay tuned, and, no, I have not lost it
G
