Myrtle wood?

[jmohil]

Over the holidays, I was visiting family and had the pleasure of visiting DHR Music up in Cincinnati.  I've never been there before (and have zero affiliation...in case anyone's wondering), but I was pretty impressed.  Lots of very, very, VERY nice guitars.  Some solid body electrics (Hamer and Breedlove mostly...if I remember right), but primarily acoustics, hollow-bodies and arch-tops. It's well worth a visit if you are up that way, if nothing else but to gawk at their inventory.  Nice folks too.

Anyway, I played a couple of acoustics that had backs/sides of myrtle wood.  I've never seen it on a guitar, but I found it absolutely gorgeous.  Flamed and  pale kind of like maple, but with cool color streaks sort of like black korina.    I have NO idea if it would make a good top or what it would sound like on an electric, but it was sure pretty.  For what it's worth, tone-wise, the acoustic sound reminded me of a maple.      It might be a cool option to have on a W!!

Here are a couple of pics from the website (www.dhrmusic.com/) of some of the myrtle wood guitars I saw/played on:

 

[DangerousR6]

Myrtle is some beautiful stuff, and can be pricey too... :icon_thumright:

 

[Alfang]

I finnaly went to this wood supply store on the otherside of town yesterday, it's called crosscut lumber, Tons of fancy wood, all the woods warmoth uses is at this store.

Plus I saw some beautifull myrtle wood and wondered why I never see guitars made from it, till you posted your pics here.

Anyway, someday I'm going down there and buying a big chunk of alder and build my own body, foy 70 bucks you can get a piece of alder big enough to build 4-5 bodies,

And maybe a big piece of canary too, would a 1 piece solid canary be too over the top? rear routed of course

 

[SlingBass]

Anyway, someday I'm going down there and buying a big chunk of alder and build my own body, foy 70 bucks you can get a piece of alder big enough to build 4-5 bodies,

And maybe a big piece of canary too, would a 1 piece solid canary be too over the top? rear routed of course

I like your thinking!  Alder is THE bass body tone wood for me.  I still have a lot of wood types to try on necks  :laughing7:

BTW: That myrtle is gorgeous  :icon_thumright:

 

[-CB-]

I knew a dancer named Myrtle.  She could shake the dimes out of a clams pocket.  But she was no match for that wood.  Good show!~

 

[kboman]

And maybe a big piece of canary too, would a 1 piece solid canary be too over the top?

Well... look at the number of Bengal burst builds on this board. "Over the top" has a completely different definition here...  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Swoop Drebel]

I got the most beautiful and massive myrtlewood trees with burls bigger than cars that have been growing for a very long time over 500 years and beyond on my property just need to find the right person that's interested in beautiful myrtlewood furniture is all

 

[rockandroller]

I built a tongue drum out of flame myrtle once, the thing was super-resonant!

 

[BroccoliRob]

I got the most beautiful and massive myrtlewood trees with burls bigger than cars that have been growing for a very long time over 500 years and beyond on my property just need to find the right person that's interested in beautiful myrtlewood furniture is all

personally, I don't think you should cut down a 500 year old tree for personal gain, in fact you'd probably need a permit to do so legally (assuming you're not a bot... )

 

[Swoop Drebel]

Unfortunately the moss has grown so much its killing a lot of the myrtlewood its just a matter of time now and the older it is the more beautiful it is and permits for what it's my property only permit I'll be getting is a permit to put my foot up whoevers ass that thinks that I need one lmao

 

[BroccoliRob]

Unfortunately the moss has grown so much its killing a lot of the myrtlewood its just a matter of time now and the older it is the more beautiful it is and permits for what it's my property only permit I'll be getting is a permit to put my foot up whoevers ass that thinks that I need one lmao

theres like a million websites about removing moss from myrtle trees according to a cursory Bing search, but I suspect you're looking for any excuse to cut down and sell the tree, so anything I say won't matter. your enthusiasm is admirable and I love that you don't let trivial things like facts or reason get in the way of your ambitions. welll, not really, it's kind of sad, actually?

anyway, your threat doesn't even make sense semantically. You'll get a permit to put a boot up the a-- of anyone who thinks you need a permit? Like, in this fantasy of yours, you'd actually go to a regulatory office and fill out paperwork to legally commit violence? lol, lmao even. frankly (that means "matter of factly", not anything to do with someone named Frank), what is considered "your" "property" means very little, just ask the indigenous people the land was taken from.

anyway, whatever you do, don't eat the moss when you get around to harvesting something older than this very nation. see, in 1992, my mate Paul told me tree moss was magic. he had heard it from his older brother, who was actually talking about mushrooms. but Paul didn't fact check that on Wikipedia as America Online didn't exist yet, unfortunately for us. so we ran out to the woods and grabbed fistfuls of tufts of moss and choked it down. it had red spots and tasted like carpet soaked in vinegar. I was on life-support for two days because my nervous system shut down. I told my doc I didn't have Nervous system, I had a Super Chill system but he just frowned. I did get high though; i had a 24 hour dream about being trapped in a cave of spiders. the spiders kept whispering my name and when I said “what?” they’d say “nothing.” it was really annoying. Paul is ok. well, okay in that he also didn't die. actually, the moss probably turned him evil because he now works for Peter Thiel. that guy is legit evil. Last time I spoke to him he threatened me with legal action if I ever revealed we once shoplifted a murphy bed from Cedar Hill Missouri K-Mart in 1994. Oops, sorry, Paul

 

[Swoop Drebel]

I'm joking about the permit thing btw and I'm sorry you went through that, so you should understand more than most people that moss isnt good for anything it just kills and how fast it grows is also mind blowing really

 

[BroccoliRob]

I'm joking about the permit thing btw and I'm sorry you went through that, so you should understand more than most people that moss isnt good for anything it just kills and how fast it grows is also mind blowing really

do you play guitar or just google search myrtle wood and post your little ad anywhere you can? did you even realize this was a guitar forum? you only mentioned furniture rofl