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Originally Posted by roberts
. There's also a bunch of quilted sapele that you see a number of guitars (including my Caldwell) built with - very tightly figured like The Tree but figure is compressed into much smaller fingerprints. That stuff I'm told is also from one tree.
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No way.
Sapele pommele (to give it its correct name) , is and always has been widely available, mostly in veneer form.
The quilted figure is a function of how the tree is cut (ie it is
not quartersawn).
Any sapele tree, cut judiciously, could yield sapele pommele.