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Old 05-29-2012, 11:57 AM
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Cool lightest?

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Originally Posted by Carlis Hsu View Post


I have one with Shedua top and it looks, no, it is art, fantastic.

Now I am fascinated by the idea of tiger maple top+core because I love the dense figure so much. and I presume that a maple core+top will make the lightest Ken Smith bass?
Lightest in color maybe but not lightest in weight.

For weights of our woods, please take a little time and study the charts that I personally made from weighing several individual samples of woods in MY stock here in the building, dried and ready to use.

The information published in books are not accurate for our use because of the moisture level used and the possible variety of the sample, figured or not. Also, all other wood info I have seen published buy builders is either copied from a book or imagined but from what I have seen, not scientifically studied and weighed.

http://www.kensmithbasses.com/woodpa...econtents.html
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