Author Topic: Top wood storage (Read 610 times)

sricabla · « **on:** April 07, 2006, 10:47:01 AM »

I just bought some cocobolo for a top wood to use for a bass sometime in the future.I live in Hawaii and the weather can be dry to humid and everything in between.Right now I have it covered in plastic and laying down flat with some weight on top of it so it dosen't warp. Is this a good way to store it?

mica · « **Reply #1 on:** April 07, 2006, 12:25:06 PM »

What are the dimensions of the wood?

sricabla · « **Reply #2 on:** April 08, 2006, 01:54:43 AM »

33 inches long by 11 1/2 bookmatched and 1/4 inch thick

jet_powers · « **Reply #3 on:** April 08, 2006, 06:48:01 AM »

That's going to make an interesting looking instrument...

JP

lbpesq · « **Reply #4 on:** April 08, 2006, 08:36:32 AM »

NICE wood!

Bill, tgo

Bradley Young · « **Reply #5 on:** April 08, 2006, 08:37:22 AM »

jlpicard · « **Reply #6 on:** April 08, 2006, 10:22:01 PM »

Ever considered a rectangular instrument? I wouldn't have the heart to lose even one millimeter of that board!! It doesn't look real. It's almost as if the grain pattern was drawn on the wood! Who/Where did you find this piece? Wait a minute! I think I've got it! we're looking at spalted cocobolo! Wow I didn't think that was possible. Mike

(Message edited by jlpicard on April 09, 2006)

george_wright · « **Reply #7 on:** April 09, 2006, 07:40:13 AM »

Looks like it was painted by Edvard Munch.

jacko · « **Reply #8 on:** April 09, 2006, 12:02:02 PM »

Wow, what a superb piece. Am I the only one seeing a lady in a flimsy blouse?

Graeme

palembic · « **Reply #9 on:** April 09, 2006, 12:15:54 PM »

Nope ...this twisted mind here too!

Paul TBO

anyway ...great minds think alike HA

bracheen · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2006, 12:22:39 PM »

I can conjure a lot of images from that wood but a lady in a flimsy blouse isn't one of them. Must have something to do with the long North Atlantic winters.
That's a piece of wood I would love to see in person. It looks 3D

From the balmy part of the Atlantic,
Sam

lbpesq · « **Reply #11 on:** April 09, 2006, 12:32:56 PM »

Sam:

Think of the lighter colored areas as her skin. The upside down triangle of light wood at the top in the middle is her throat surrounded by the plunging neckline of the shirt, which then opens up to bare the midriff.

I guess I'm just as sick as you guys. LOL

Bill, tgo

bracheen · « **Reply #12 on:** April 09, 2006, 12:42:46 PM »

Ahhh, Bill, of course! And the 3D part is...

I need to get out more.

Bradley Young · « **Reply #13 on:** April 09, 2006, 02:58:19 PM »

If that is the case, I don't think that ban the bra thing is working out too well.

bigredbass · « **Reply #14 on:** April 09, 2006, 08:05:42 PM »

And I thought I was losing it seeing the AlemBird and the black helicopters! I can't see the girl, this wood is just other-worldly, some real Martian wood.

JeanLuc, regarding a rectangular instrument for this singular piece of cocoB, wouldn't it make the ULTIMATE Bo Diddley?

J o e y