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Old 01-07-2012, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by roberts View Post
. 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.
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.
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