Today we went to our favorite "private" sawmill to pick up more Florida Cypress. We scored an 8 ft. x 26 inch O.D. cypress log section and had it cut into 2 inch sawplanks. This is a log that was found in a creek bed and has been air drying for the last 6 years. It was on it's way to becoming cypress mulch, but we have a far better purpose for it.
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We're in the process of building a Tennessee farmhouse. We hope to use reclaimed cypress instead of Western Cedar--stained, not painted--as siding. The price is right if you live in the southeastern U.S. Don't let 'em mulch that beautiful stuff!
I haven't planned on any solid body electrics. I use this wood to make my stick dulcimers, cigar box guitar necks, and my acoustic guitars, mandolins & ukuleles. There are far too many slab guitars out there already.
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I most definitely have arch top guitars & mandolins in my near future.
Good score!
Since you don't plan any slab bodies what about hollow body archtop?
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Keep an eye out for Hemlock, great for siding and weathers beautifully.
We're in the process of building a Tennessee farmhouse. We hope to use reclaimed cypress instead of Western Cedar--stained, not painted--as siding. The price is right if you live in the southeastern U.S. Don't let 'em mulch that beautiful stuff!
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I haven't planned on any solid body electrics. I use this wood to make my stick dulcimers, cigar box guitar necks, and my acoustic guitars, mandolins & ukuleles. There are far too many slab guitars out there already.
Nice I have the same sawmill. Assume you will make some solid body electrics??
Yup, GS. You don't need a truss rod with a neck that big. Very pretty grain.
WOW! That's gonna be a BIG neck! :-o