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by delsur777, Sunday, May 17, 2009, 23:29 @ lwllms

lwllms,

Now that you mention it, I haven't seen any Beech in awhile either. I tried to get some Lignum Vitae for a plane sole on Saturday, and all the guy had was a small piece you could wrap your hand around. He says LV is endangered and he doesn't carry it anymore. I bought some purple heart instead, but I read somewhere that it tends to chip out around the mouth if you use it for a plane sole. Oh well..I guess I'll have to make fret boards out of the purple heart and use your googaboola for plane soles. ))

We're probably missing out on a marketing opportunity. We should buy up a load of cherry and soak it in stain for a few months. Then we can sell it for $25 a board foot as Dark African Googaboola or South American Amazon Stinkwood. As we start to run out we can claim it's endangered and we're down to the last of it and triple the price. I think I'm on to something here. ))

I can joke about it, but I couldn't actually pull it off. With my kharma, the best I could hope for would be legal indictment for "The Great Stinkwood Scandal of '09"

Delsur777