Santos rosewood western guitar bridge blank grade AAA*

Santos rosewood western guitar bridge blank grade AAA*.

Machaerium scleroxylon from Bolivia.

950kg/m3

Photo is of a typical piece.

A very credible rosewood substitute also known as Pao Ferro and Morado. Dense and close textured, easy to finish and producing good sounding instruments.

Also rather famous for producing a skin allergy and so we advise use it only if you have worked it before without any ill effects.

Classical guitar 200 x 35 x 13mm
Western guitar 180 x 45 x 13mm

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.