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I haven't been on Woodcraft's site In a long while. Didn't even know they sold lumber. Sweet piece there, Eric! I actually do buy wood this way quite a bit, because for acoustic guitars I need at least 8" wide, and usually boards that wide and above have a premium added to them. I have to...

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Having used super glue to finish a guitar neck, and as a sealer coat on another project, I'd agree with most things here. What terrifies me is wearing gloves anywhere near a lathe. I've heard, read, and seen some horrific accidents caused by gloves or clothing caught on a lathe, mill and drill...

We'll be back to 60 degree weather in no time!

Seeing you're in southern CA I hope the best or you and all out there. You can replace everything but yourselves.

Yeah, when all the rain washes all the stuff that burned into the sea... Mother Nature has a funny way of cleansing herself. But from the devastation comes rebirth. Unfortunately humans are caught up in it. I have a luthier friend who's 69 and lost everything he and his wife owned...

It's tough sometimes communicating over a forum as opposed to face-to-face. I didn't take your confusion of your "issue" as genuine, so I didn't take the thanks seriously. But, you're welcome. Your question did morph from trying to effect more birds eye than what was already on the wood by...

Well, what annoyed me was that this was explained in posts 2 and 3. I went into detail in post 11. And then in post 19. And each time you seemed to be dismissive, or insisting that there actually is a way to make something that's not there. If you ask somone for advice, and it's given, at...

OK now you're showing off :grin:... NICE stuff there!

Once again, it does not matter how you saw the wood - the minute you turn it you expose everything. Athough I will say that looks like eastern hard rock maple; I don't think it's as prevalent with western maple, which happens to be a bit softer. Even if you somehow cut the wood on a bias to...

Well, a word to the "astute" - don't believe everything you read in Wikipedia. I've discovered ommisions, misquotes, lack of credit and/or credentials. Recently, I saw one article on alternating current that credits George Westinghouse but not Nicola Tesla for the generator at Niagara Falls...

I think marketing and necessity play a role here. Back when Brazilian rosewood was more readily available, guitar manufacturers such as Martin basically shunned anything that wasn't quartersawn and straight. Nowadays, most BRW guitar sets are wild grain because they come form stump wood...

Well, harder and denser woods can be easier to produce chips, and can be more uniform in density regardless of grain direction. Kind of like aluminum - you can get something like 7075 which is hard and machines easily and beautifully and produces nice chips, or 3003, which is so stringy and...

Well you basically answered your question. But again, I reiterate, when you turn a piece of wood, you expose ALL CUTS - flat, quartered, rift, and everything in between. So you cannot cut a piece of birdseye and visually see more eye. You have to obtain a piece with more birdseye. You can...

You can't subtract from a piece of wood and get more of anything... It should be painfully obvious that turning a square piece exposes all sides. If you took some flat stock, went to the drill press and drilled holes in random spots, and then turned the wood, do you see more holes? You...

I think my faith in humanity has been restored. I for one got sucked in the vortex; my sarcasm indicator did not set off. An emoji of some sort may have signaled us... :thumbup:

Compare the top third of your pic to Dave's

There's absolutely no other way to saw the wood to get a "better" view - it's being turned, so you have a 360 degree view of said piece of wood. Is it trash? That's debatable. It might make one hell of a player. You may find you play it more, simply because you're not caught up on its looks...

The bird's eye is visible only on the flatsawn side, so the only way to have that pattern around would be to use three or four wedges glued up, or veneer. Or make the forearm the diameter of the tree.:D

I would think a cuemaker would use very straight grained stuff, and turn it over a course of a few sessions. I'm pretty sure the cue guys are similar to the guitar guys in that they have wood stashed for many years, then start cutting it rough and let it sit may years more. I'm in the process...