www.amazon.com/shop/aguydoing... Unboxing a guitar kit from Luthier Mercantile International Back and sides - Ziricote www.lmii.com/products/mostly-w...
so, couple questions please? the species you chose, for looks or do they have acoustic qualities? and the wood itself, does this company just do guitar kits, or do they supply random exotic woods? (I build knives) ~thanks
Yeah - so ziricote has a really unique look to it that I liked a lot but it's also supposed to be a really good "tonewood" too. Here's a site with some interesting descriptions of common tonewoods from Breedlove: breedlovemusic.com/soundstudio/tone-woods/ I mostly chose it cause it looks cool. I think one of the reasons it's so expensive is it only grow in a certain part of Central America and there's some kind of import ban or super high tax on it (I'm not really an expert here). I have heard it's workability is more like an ebony than a rosewood. It is used for turning though - I use this wood database website a lot for learning about woods I don't know much about: www.wood-database.com/ziricote/ I bought the kit from www.lmii.com/. They are pretty specific to instrument building. I think you could find cheaper ziricote somewhere else on the internet but I haven't really shopped around. Thanks for the questions!
@@tymesho there are hardwood suppliers in Michigan. Try Armstrong Millworks ( armstrongmillworks.com ), they have shorter lengths of exotics and a large selection of exotic rough cut lumber. There is at least one supplier in the UP and another near Traverse City that I know about. Armstrong carries zircote, and if recollection serves correct they have it at $22-23 / bd ft. 4/4 and not wide enough to fashion a guitar body from, but you're not making guitars.
Saw your post regarding exotic hardwoods for making knives. Check your area for high end yacht or sailboat builders. Some use interesting exotics for the interiors. I spent 15 years in that industry up here around Vancouver Canada and still have a large collection of pieces. I've sold pieces to luthiers and one kinifemaker. Good luck
That's going to make one nice guitar man! Smart thinking with the pre-slotted fretboard, I did the same for my guitars back in the days. I did about 3-4 fretboards on my own and just realized it is easier to pay the extra few bucks to have them take care of it. Looking forward to the series.
Ziricote! Excellent choice! I have my eye on some ziricote I plan on using for next year's workshops. Absolutely stunning stuff under finish. If you can get your hands on some practice wood for bending the sides, I would do that first, just because ziricote won't bend as easy as the rosewood you used before. In fact, the more figure the wood has, the harder it is to bend. So if you can get your hands on a throwaway set of mahogany or walnut sides then you would have something to practice with. Mahogany and walnut are more difficult to bend than rosewood, so they make a good practice sets. Even better, you can order "orphaned sides" from rctonewoods. They are something like $5 a side and essentially what you are getting is whatever rctonewoods couldn't sell because it didn't have a corresponding bookmatched pair. You cannot select what kind of wood you get, but if you order 4 or 5 of them you get a good variety of woods to practice with, and for only 5 bucks a side.
This is ludicrus [sp my bad] Build a kit guitar for $200 . for the fun of it, the experiense , so you can say you did it. At this point, [price point], you can buy a better guitar than you can build.
