Out here in Fort Stinkindesert (where the women are strong, the men aren't good looking, and the children are mostly below average) I never luck out scoring old wood from violinmaker obituary watching, chasing woodworker ambulances, etc. This week I hooked up with the daughter in law of a Maine dairy farmer who started bringing maple and walnut to the southwest in 1970, letting it collect dust it in a metal building in a nearby town dry enough to be a sister city of Andamooka, Oz.
So I'll use the 1x12 birdseye for 1 piece mandobacks, but with the 2x9.5 stock, would you cafeluthier birdseye wizards make 2pc slab backs for 14.5" wide octaves? I've only used quartersawn for 2pc GOM backs.
thanks in advance
anybody got a gunstock duplicator I could rent for a few weeks?
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