Madagascar rosewood guitar back and sides set no 106

Madagasacar rosewood guitar back and sides set classic size grade AA**

Dalbergia baroni from Madagascar

880kg/m3

Photo is of actual set.

Madagascar is home to dozens of rosewood species and this is the one most suitable in all repects as a top notch guitar back and sides wood. Availability has become close to impossible in the last 10 years or so because of demand from the Chinese furniture industry. These sets are from wood imported about 20 years ago before any of that had begun.

AAA – Quarter sawn wood or nearly so.

AA – Wood that is quartered to one edge, (where the centre joint of the back will be ), gradually straying from the quarter ending up slab sawn at the opposite edge.

A – Wood that is slab sawn, the main slab sawn area being approximately half way across the board.

* - One or more asterisks may be added to the grade mark to indicate wood that is aesthetically more pleasing or desirable by virtue of colour, intensity of figure or fineness of grain.

Back and sides sets are pre matched for colour and character.

Back and sides sets frequently are different grades for the back and the sides e.g. AAA sides and AA back. The valuation of these sets assumes the back and the sides each represent 50% of the value of a set and are then added together.

Western size backs 2pc 560mm x 205mm and up x 4mm
sides 2pc 830mm x 120mm and up x 3.5mm

Classic size backs 2pc 530mm x 190mm and up x 4mm
sides 2pc 780mm x 100mm and up x 3.5mm