Description
Australian Western Red Box Burr 023 SUPER RARE
Australian Western Red Box Burr Bookmatched Guitar / Bass Top Set. The worlds finest woods for Luthiers, from Luthierwood.
7.3mm Thick. Please see photos for other dimensions (along the left and bottom edge of the photography board).
These tops are incredible and as rare as it gets! All the way from western Australia, Western Red Box is an amazing arid zone timber. It’s very dense and shows incredible grain patterns and colours. Its rare to find burl figure in these species anyway, particularly outside of Australia. But finding a Western Red Box Burr in large enough sizes to cut guitar tops from? It’s unheard of! This is the first and most likely last time I will ever have this amazing material in stock. Particularly in dimensions large enough for instrument tops.
These Burr sets are recommended for experienced Luthiers. Being a burr they will contain small cracks and splits. Maybe the odd bark incursion, all of which may require filling or careful gluing. The species is also prone to attack from wood boring beetles whilst the tree was still alive (long since dead, particularly after the kiln drying process). Some of the outermost sets may contain some small bore holes which again may require filling. If you have any questions or require further images then please don’t hesitate to ask, and please do so before purchasing.
All these sets are kiln dried and ready to work with. Still, it is always recommended that the wood is allow to acclimatise to the new environment before being worked on, particularly if you have purchased from over seas. It is recommended to stack the set ‘On Stick’ and weighted from above to ensure full air circulation, giving the set time to properly acclimatise. If not being used right away then it is important to stack the wood properly, ‘On Stick’. Failure to do this could result in the wood cupping / bowing and becoming unusable.
All sets are photographed both dry and sprayed with Naphtha to show true colour and figuring (to give a hint at how stunning the set will look once sanded anodised or lacquered). Dimensions in the images, see set pictured against measurement board.
Global shipping available.
