LAUREL guitar fingerboard blank

Wood: INDIAN LAUREL Terminalia tomentosa, dimensions:

width: 7 – 6 cm

length: 53,3 cm

thickness: 7 mm

(1 pc, ** quality – more information about Laurel blanks quality you can find farther in the description. Marked knot – probably to avoid)…

for the purpose of guitar fingerboard or other instrument under which you can use an item shown. The pictures show this particular piece of wood. Pre-sanded surfaces, dry and ready to use. Dimensions for own purposes to be carried out independently. As always when working with wood, we recommend to domesticate the wood at the place of destination for a period of several weeks. Everyone, even the most stable type of wood is not indifferent to changes in humidity, temperature and other external factors.

Wood quality description: Laurel guitar fingerboard blanks

*** - the highest quality in a sort, very often it means a wood blank is the AAA grade. Wood for guitar fingerboard, without any defects (unless the description of a specific blank states otherwise), mostly medium-high or high density, mostly dark or intensive in colour, mostly straight or little curved fiber runs along the blank and/ or tide ring spaces. *** quality blanks are clearly better quality than ** in a sort, and they are intended for the most demanding players or instrument makers, for top quality and premium instruments

** - medium quality in a sort, very often it means a wood blank is the AA grade. Wood for guitar fingerboard, without any defects in most cases (unless the description of a specific blank states otherwise), mostly medium or high density, mostly medium-dark colour , mostly stright or wavy fiber runs along a material, wider spaces between rings than in *** quality blanks. ** quality blanks are clearly better quality than * – basic or low quality blanks, and they are the most commonly chosen for fingerboards, because of the good quality – to – price ratio

* - basic or low quality in a sort, very often it means a wood blank is the A or B grade. Wood for guitar fingerboard, can have some defects (marked on a blank or notted in a description of a specific blank), mostly lower density (than **, ***) and/ or lighter colour and/ or curved/ irregular fiber runs along the blank. *- basic or low quality Indian Laurel fingerboard blanks, which  we offer, are intended for musical instruments for less demanding players or instrument makers. Some *Q pieces are really good, it is worth spending some time to find something at a good price

Additional information:

Other names: Laurel, Indian Laurel

Laurel mainly comes from India, density of dry wood is about 800-850 kg/m3. Laurel is a cheaper replacement for rosewood, is lighter in colour than rosewoods, mostly the colour is light brown with darker lines (sometimes you can meet dark brown pieces or very pale). The wood is not so oily like rosewoods and pores are often more open and much longer, so sometimes they have to be filled. Laurel is warm sounding wood, similar to rosewoods. It is another species that replaces rosewoods in guitarmaking.