Any Members With an Amboyna - Bodied Guitar ?

[coastie99]

I'd never heard of this wood until reading recently about Art Deco. and Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann. ( What exquisite taste this man had. )

Gorgeous wood and some lovely examples showed up in a Google search.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Apparently it's related to paduak, which Guild used on some necks.

 

[coastie99]

Apparently it's related to paduak, which Guild used on some necks.

It's bloody lovely looking wood. Hugely popular apparently in the Art Deco. era.

 

[Sal]

Coastie, are you thinking of a solid-body electric guitar? The discontinued Guild GAD-5N nylon guitar had african paduak back and sides. Paduak is a beautiful wood, I'd say similar in appearance to mohagany but with a more saturated deep orange color. Amboyna burl wood seems to be prized by wood carvers.

 

[Walter Broes]

Whoa - the "Deco" part of your post made me google some, and you're not kidding!!! Gorgeous!!!!

 

[coastie99]

Coastie, are you thinking of a solid-body electric guitar? The discontinued Guild GAD-5N nylon guitar had african paduak back and sides. Paduak is a beautiful wood, I'd say similar in appearance to mohagany but with a more saturated deep orange color. Amboyna burl wood seems to be prized by wood carvers.

Hi Sal.

Yes, I was thinking of a solid-body. A slab of Amboyna would make one very pretty guitar. I must google Paduak, which I'd assumed was some kind of "lesser" wood.

 

[coastie99]

Lookee here for some fab. woods ...............

http://www.lonewolfguitars.com/options_ ... _wood.html

 

[Sal]

Wow! I've never seen guitar woods displayed like that. A buyer should have a pretty good idea what to expect. Nice.