MAKING OFFERS LOCATION PRICES STORIES	Click on any item to open an email dialogue with me. When I receive your message, I will add a icon to the item. There will be an icon posted for each person who enters the dialogue on an item. Think of it like the bidders on Ebay. Mouse the icon to see the "ALT text" which will show you exactly what level the discussion has reached. When we reach agreement I will add a icon. Once it ships, it will be marked and/or removed from the website. I assume I will have to set up a PayPal account eventually to handle financial transactions. What follows is a listing of the rosewood that I have been able to dig out of the chaos of the storage. I will post more pictures and list other planks when they surface Pre-CITES Guitar sides and back set. Back Set SIDES Pre-CITES Guitar sides and back set. Brazilian Rosewood set. Sanded smooth, surprisingly thick - the back set is nearly a quarter inch thick. Beautifully book-matched, cuz it is successive cuts and the slab it came off was really really close to quartersawn - the grain is running closer to 80 degrees than to 60 degrees - in some areas the black bands are almost perpendicular to the face - but my attempt to shoot a closeup of the edge failed miserably. I think I will try the scanner. Overall, the back set has a rather bright center and it has only one little worm-hole that is way out of the area you would use. There is less "figure" off-center than my 1928 Washburn, but that's cuz it is closer to quartersawn. Sanding it lightly did not help - in fact, it is harder to see the figure in the sanded wood than in the oxidized wood! Mostly today was just too gray but I will scrape to reveal the grain and shoot a bunch of revealing shots of it in full daylight at high resolution, and link the images off the idividual pages. One of the side pieces is developing a crack from people handling it roughly and I am going to superglue a small Brazilain rosewood support onto it to prevent it from breaking. The sides are also bookmatched and very well quartered pair approximately 4+ X 32+, planed but not thickness sanded I acquired this wood in early 1968 for a steel-string 12-string Dreadnaught-size guitar that I never built. This set could provide materials for several smaller instruments. Pre-CITES Brazilian Rosewood lumber Pre-CITES Brazilian Rosewood lumber Truly exceptional guitar-making material. This wood was imported from Brazil in the mid 1960's (long before the export ban) and it was high-graded (rescued) by the importer, who was the owner of a small factory in Idaho that made extremely expensive custom pistol grips. The wood is all highly figured. It was quarter-sawn into 3 to 4 foot long planks prior to export. Planks are currently between 1 inch and 3 inches thick and between 6 inches and 8 inches wide. All the wood was selected by the exporter for maximum figure for a perfectionist customer. This was the collection of a life-time of importing - these are literally planks that he recognized were simply too beautiful to chop up into small pieces and make into pistol grips. When he sold the factory and retired in 1980, he advertized the lot for sale as guitar wood. I found the ad and called friends. In the end, 3 local guitar-makers bought almost all of it. So far I have found the following boards, but there used to be several others: 1 inch net by 8 inch net by 60 inches, sawn 2 inch net by 4 inch net by 40 inches, sawn 2.25 inch net by 4 inch net by 44 inches, sawn 1 inch net by 7 inch net by 48 inches, planed very smooth 4 inch diameter log about 3 feet long that may be mesquite or mountain mahogany, planed to flat for about an inch wide along one edge, to expose figure Pre-CITES Brazilian Rosewood Veneers - 8 inches wide by 30 inches long Pre-CITES Brazilian Rosewood Veneers Truly exceptional guitar-making material. In 1967 I had a "real" late-'50's dot-neck blonde ES-335 with stud tailpiece. It was a fantastic instrument, and after I traded it in for a Martin D-28 I never met a 335 that I considered worth owning. I've always sort of regretted trading that guitar and about 25 years ago I got this rosewood veneer from a local high-end waterski maker, planning to make some Brazilian rosewood ES-335 guitars. The Epiphone Sheraton that I took apart to make the molds for the back and top is listed eleswhere on the site. I never completed the project. These veneers are about 8 inches by 30 inches and rather thick, many are edge-taped. There are apparently 12 sheets left, but there used to be about 20, so I will keep looking and post more when I find them. Write for more detailed images of any piece or pieces, identified by its left-to-right location on the floor. Honduras Mahogany Guitar Sides A bit over 6 inches by 32 inches Great flame figure. Nowhere near as figured but great color and it's wide. Honduras Mahogany Guitar Sides - 6 inches by 32 inches One pair cut in the mid-70's when the wood was still fairly plentiful. Great flame figure. Other pair also cut in the mid-70's. Nowhere near as figured but great color and it's wide. 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