Hi Jeff! I believe you confused the flat saw with the quarter saw. The quartersaw piece is where the figure appears strongest, when we cut the medullary rays along its length. In the flat saw piece, the figure is more discreet because we cut the medullary rays transversely. This confusion is natural when looking at endgrain, because in this wood, the medullary rays are so large that we confuse them with growth rings. That's why you reversed the flat saw and the quarter saw... those lines are the rays, not the growth rings.
Yeah aweshome. Lacewood sometimes called silky oak in the usa, is a dual density hybrid wood, its like mahogany veins with alder plugs, and is used religiously by def leopard guitarist, because the brits call lacewood, 'leopard wood ' and he loves the sounds it makes. like the dual density, the sounds it carries out are a 1 two punch, the harder mahogany veins and the softer alder fill imparts the dual sounds. One of the most renowned brazillian rosewood is a multiple species dalbergia, and a TRIPLE sounding wood and is why it is prized in the highest. for musical tonewoods multiple sound wood are the most capable for a tonewood. however luthiers use multilaminates to great affect effect, although the unglued sound of a single piece of multidensity woods with multiple simultaneous sound responses is unbeatable.
use the quartersawn for guitar neck, and the flat sawn for guitar body. the way sound travels. any quarter sawn shall be brighter in sound than the flat sawn in a neck or fretboard given the same material, and the soundboard shall sustain for a flat sawn top The quarter sawn neck shall also be stiffer against the pull of the strings versus the flat sawn. Although there is or was a bass guitar company that multilaminated endless sheets flat layups until the entire body and neck were completed. they were a high end bass guitar specialist i am going to look them up again and see if they are still around or if i can recognize the vid because i forgot the name. i shall look up that bass construction on youtube.
