Friends - Friends are all, I believe we have only know that a particular timber that can be used as an ingredient of a guitar / bass. Actually there are some real wood in Indonesia that is often made of materials both body and neck.
Post I took from the post bang Budi Kurnia Contributor in ISBC, when he made a thread about Indonesian timber for used musical instruments. that we know only Alder, Ash, Basswood, Maple, Mahogany, agathis .. which is often made in the basic materials guitar / bass. but there is some good wood that's been in test reliability for guitar & bass material. Original timber Indonesia has met the standard of materials that are pretty good. such as texture, density, wood fiber, wood strength and power of resonance that good!!
The timber is CEMPAKA, MERAWAN, nyatoh, Lasi, EBONY, MAGOHANY, AVOCADO, banyan ........
1. Wood Outcome: included into a special type of wood! name was KILAKI. Adina Fagifolia Val type species. Rubiaceae tribe. This wood has a dandy drought and heavy types that are not too heavy.
Wood is dark yellow color, with flower pattern medium, medium hardness power, which combined with fiber. Growing up in the area around Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara! timber if it is in the finishing is very luxurious and quite expensive wood for musical instruments in use .. but rarely there who know and begin there overseas manufacturers that use it for guitar / bass!
2. EBONY Wood: Wood who is no stranger to the guitar industry in the world to be made freetboard or plywood top & middle Body! Macasar name was Ebony, wood charcoal, wood Coromandel & black! its Latin name Dyospiros spp. Ebenaceae tribal family. Growing up in central and southeastern Sulawesi Around (Maluku).
black and gray in color alternating younger, and sometimes dark black. the nature of his hard work and difficult, large fiber flower moderate hardness. coarse texture. Timber is suitable for musical instruments, tools, carving ..
3. Wooden CEMPAKA: Another name Baros yellow to brown red. moderate hardness. There the Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi. wood is now being widely tested to be made in musical material, which has a wood belonging karean resonant sound that good. with fiber-tight.
4. Wood SONOKELING: name was Sonobrits, Palisander, Indian Wood, sono sungu! its Latin name Dalbergialatifolia Roxb. with dark red / purple with dark black lines. This type of wood that is very hard, even harder than the Ebony! and if the brush can be very subtle. located in Java Island! also commonly used as Frettboard guitar / bass and guitars are almost all industrial wear that look a lot like Ebony just more black ebony.
5. Wood MAHONI: or call Magohany wood outside world! Indonesia is the most original wood lots in the search to be made in the material body guitar / bass. Manufacturing Gibson, PRS, etc. This type of wood used as raw material for his guitar. This wood light brown to dark brown. timber that already hundreds epidemic is a very nice material made in the Body & neck guitar / bass.
Wood was found by Americans in Indonesia once, then it is known as American Mahogany! wood is now becoming rare in Indonesa as much on exports to be made of materials guitar / bass and the other instruments.
Fiber is very solid, if not easily processed saws or sompal & neat. glabrous. This wooden timber count for the guitar in the world. Growing up in west and central Java around Kidiri.
6. Sungkai wood: wood that once ruled this guitar-making material in the era of the 80/90 's. Similar to that of wood fiber and wood colors from American Ash. resultant resonant sound pretty good. old wood that has aged very nice. light yellow to dark yellow.
Another name of this wood is teak Sabrang (not the kind of Teak!), Straight, Koeroes!. its Latin name phenomenon Canascens jack! grown in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, west, central and south. timber that I use for the manufacture of bass seasonal models to look like Ash wood.
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