The back and sides are spalted tamarind. This is from a tree that was planted, and then taken down many years later because it got too big by a mango grower in Boynton Beach Florida. I went down to get some mango wood from old trees he was replacing, and there was this log sitting off to the side. This is one of the first two instruments I have built out of this wood which even spalted is quite hard. It bends well, finished well, sounds great, and certainly looks spectacular. This is paired with a water-tank redwood top, which is my favorite top wood, since I really like a warmer, rounder, ‘thicker’ sound.
Fingerboard and bridge are curly casuarina. Fingerboard has a 10 inch radius. Sprial rosette in pink abalone pearl, Pennsylvania poplar neck, spalted tamarind headplate, black bog oak (2000-4000 years old) binding, black-white-black-white purfling.
