Pernambuco
Cocobolo and mystery wood from LATH?
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Yes, curly pernambuco. Pernambuco with this kind of figure is very rare and the stash that I bought from was all blond, not orange. Its rough being a wood sucker sometimes. The dealer had about 30 chocolate brown 7/4 and 5/4 large Brazilian rosewood boards from the same time frame, 1955. This wood was brought here then, I was told, by a Brazilian engineer when he came to the USA to work. He retired and sold the stash to the dealer. The Brazilian rosewood had nail holes on the ends of the boards as it was used as crate wood! I would have loved to buy a board but the board foot price made me gasp (250.00/bf). The guitar makers will probably get most of it.
Martin
Martin
axejunkie said:
Martin, a couple of months ago they had an article in National Geographic about violin bows made of Pernambuco. There is one bow that goes with a Stradavarius that is over 200 years old and is worth more than $40,000. The owner of the violin says that the bow brings more color to the sounds than any bow he has ever used. Some kind of wood!
Wow, Charlie... musicians are probably as anal about wood as cuemakers and pool players are! I wonder what the specific quality Pernambuco is known to have that makes it so desireable for bows. Where would our cues be without sugar maple shafts? You can keep the ramin wood.
Martin
Martin
charlieb said:
I think it's because it's rigidity, tonal and reflective characteristics make it the most popular bow.jazznpool said:
I'm reaaaaalllly gonna hold on to what I have now.
I'm gonna find a violin player and offer 'em a cue for a ton of cash.
That must be a really rare piece because the color is different than all the other pernambuco I have ever seen and the grain is also noticeably different.
Hey Paul, It could be curly balsa worth $1.37 a board foot and I got fooled again by a wood dealer! 
I bought a watermelon red square of pink ivory at Rockler a few months ago and I'm wondering if it might not have been mislabelled redhart! Martin, AKA the wood junky.
I bought a watermelon red square of pink ivory at Rockler a few months ago and I'm wondering if it might not have been mislabelled redhart! Martin, AKA the wood junky.Paul Dayton said:
Martin, pink ivory comes in every color from tan to fairly dark red but the yellow in the piece of wood you have is a color that I have never seen or heard mentioned in connection with pernambuco.
It looks like it would make a pretty wild cue and and from your description it has all the necessary physical characteristics.
It looks like it would make a pretty wild cue and and from your description it has all the necessary physical characteristics.
imo,the only other possiblitly for it is Ceylon Satinwood and i think you would be able to tell them apart.the Satiwood is heavier.Pernambuco isn't really much heavier than Maple,maybe between maple and PH.Satinwood is at leats as heavy as PH or heavier.
Satinwood is also very smooth to the touch when sanded smooth.
Satinwood is also very smooth to the touch when sanded smooth.