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Old 03-19-2009, 09:53 AM
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Hi Y'all I was looking on craigslist this morning for fencing and found this load of Mesquite wood.

http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/mat/1081404927.html

By the looks of it the wood in the ad is slab sawn not quarter sawn, but the thought of a mesquite git intrigued me.

How would mesquite work for building a git?
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Old 03-19-2009, 10:29 AM
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Wow, that's amazing, never seen that. I don't know about guitar woods, but Mesquite is a pretty hard wood. At least if you burned it, it would smell good.

Maybe you can get Steve to build you one.
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Old 03-19-2009, 10:50 AM
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Me either Fred. I sure hope that nobody burns that stuff up to cook steaks
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Maybe if they made Estaban's with Mesquite, they would smell better when burning then!
That would at least give an esteban a viable use.
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Funny thing is that I was looking for a mesquite dining room table and found an Indian rosewood one that looks remarkably similar and is much less epensive. In fact I bought the table, chairs, side board, and hutch... Not sure about the tone, however.
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Funny thing is that I was looking for a mesquite dining room table and found an Indian rosewood one that looks remarkably similar and is much less epensive. In fact I bought the table, chairs, side board, and hutch... Not sure about the tone, however.
Tap on it with your spoon.
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Old 03-19-2009, 03:28 PM
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there's a Fylde cedar/mesquite guitar for sale at Shoreline:
http://www.shorelinemusic.com/archiv...magician.shtml
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That Fylde was a custom build. Plus, Shoreline is no longer a Fylde dealer.
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I got mesquite out the ears. I'd love to see guitars made out of it.
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I have a Charles Hoffman 00 made out of Argentinian Mequite. He had it on display at the Miami guitar show last spring. I played it there and then was able to make a deal for it after the show. It looks amazing and the sound is in the Mahogany range to my ear.

Works for me at least, and Charlie that is.
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Recently, Bob Taylor said that mesquite made very nice guitars. It would just be difficult to convince people to buy a mesquite guitar instead of BBQing with it.
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