Quality guaranteed Basswood electric guitar body blank with free shipping.

 

Each blank is kiln-dried

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Scientific name: (Tilia americana)
The Basswood is a lighter weight wood. The color is white but often can be found contaminated with green mineral streaks in it. This is a closed-grain wood, but it can absorb a lot of finish. Therefore the use of clear finishes would not be much advised. It is quite soft and fairly easy to work with. Speaking about the musical characters, Basswood body blanks has a nice, growley, warm tone with good mids. A favorite tonewood for shredders in the 80s since its defined sound cuts through a mix well. Since Basswood has great acoustic qualities, it is also extensively used for the creation of various wind instruments, recorders, guitar, and bass guitar bodies.

Basswood is a colorless wood which is very easy to work with. It is native to Europe, Asia and North America. As a tonewood it is used for guitar bodies only. Basswood has excellent mid-range tones and has a very warm and pronounced sound with very good sustain. Because of it’s “growl” it is very suited for Rock and Metal. It is the best wood choice for Floyd Rose equipped guitars as the tremolo tends to be very tinny sounding with other woods due to it’s minimal contact with the guitar body. The tonal properties of basswood eliminate that problem. Since the beginning of the 21st Century basswood has become the tonewood of choice for many international brands and has become the hallmark of the “Rock guitar.”
Visually it has no grain so is not used for natural finishes. It is quite soft and can dent more easily than other tonewoods.

This piece is a sample picture. You will get a similar piece.

If you need pictures of what you get please email us at jockey@exoticwoodzone.com and we can send you some options to choose from 

1) Are these sizes true sizes?
Yes, these sizes are True. The Measurements that you see are what you will be getting. For example, if it says 2" x 2" x 12” then that's the exact size you will be getting. However, If you ask, it will be planned or jointed. Then the answer is no. It will be rough sawn cut sizes.

2) Are these kiln-dried or air-dried
80 percent of our stock is kiln-dried. The stock that is not kiln dried is East Indian Rosewood, Gaboon Ebony, and Black palm. Leopardwood that's 2” and above is not kiln dried. We normally sell this kiln-dried. But the current stock is not kiln dried.

3) What is Moisture?
Kiln-dried are mostly between 8-10 percent. We are located in St. Louis, Missouri so we have high humidity and hence our moisture is high. Air-dried varies mostly by 12-15 percent.

4) Are these Quarter Cut or Rift sawn or Flat sawn?
This varies. However, 100 percent of our back and sides, neck blanks, and fingerboards are Quarter cut and book matched except Birdseye maple.

5) Are these rough cuts?
Yes, most of our lumber, luthier products, turning blanks, bowl blanks, etc are all rough cut. We do plane body blanks and this option is added when you buy. We do plane them down at no extra cost.

6) Are these Planned or Jointed?
Not planned or jointed. We do this occasionally for customers who don't have access to a planer or jointer at no extra cost.

7) Would you plane this piece?
Yes, we can do this. At this moment we are backed up but in exceptional cases, we can help out. Please email at jockey@exoticwoodzone.com

8) Would you joint this for me?
Again we can do this at no extra cost if time permits us. Please email at jockey@exoticwoodzone.com

9) Do you do custom cut?
Yes, we do custom size orders. But there has to be a minimum of $200 order. But again we try our best to help out in other cases if we can.

10) How is board foot calculated?
You take the length x width x thickness and then divide this by 144 (if all measurements are in inches)Here’s an example. A Lumber piece measures 20” wide, 48” long, and 1” thick Then the board feet will be 20 x 48 x 1

11) Why is lumber so expensive?
Even though most of the moisture is removed from lumber, wood is still a dense material. Most of the ground freight carriers built the companies to deliver packages much smaller in dimension and lighter than the weight of lumber. When it comes to lumber due to the sheer size of it, shipping companies charge a lot for shipping. We offer free shipping. That's why you are in good hands as we deal with the shipping companies ourselves and get you the best rate and sell the products at on rate.

12)What kind of lumber do you stock?
Our specialty is hardwood lumber both exotic and domestic except for Basswood.

Domestics

• Basswood
• Black Walnut
• Hard Maple
• Cherry
• Hard Maple
• Birdseye maple
• White Ash
• Curly Hard Maple
• Alder
• Poplar
• Ambrosia Maple