cocobolo

Some cocobolo has a specific gravity of over 1.0, and will sink in water.

It is known to produce the wood called cocobolo.

Unless you can afford to step up to zebrawood or Mexican cocobolo.

He was handsome, had great stamina, and his body seemed chiseled from hard cocobolo wood.

Jerry Garcia's Tiger (guitar) has a cocobolo top and back.

Most recently acoustic guitars are being made from cocobolo due to limitations in certain tonewoods.

The 12-inch figure is mounted upon a hexagon-shaped slab of black granite and polished Cocobolo wood.

For example, cocobolo (granadillo) dust is known to be toxic (toxic shock).

Other woods yielded by the same genus are cocobolo, rosewood, blackwood and tulipwood.

The lumber industry yields valuable woods such as cedar, balsa, balsam, mahogany and cocobolo.

Cocobolo used in upper-end clarinets and guitars.

Not just any wood, but rare cocobolo or Honduras rosewood, depending on the buyer's preference, and trimmed with aircraft aluminum.

Care must be used when cutting Cocobolo, as the wood's oils can induce allergic reactions if inhaled or exposed to unprotected skin and eyes.

PRS and Taylor guitars have also used solid cocobolo for back and side sets on their higher end models.

The piano's pale curly maple veneer case seems to float atop two enormous curved supports in dark cocobolo veneer.

Woods with an oily content, such as cocobolo,can achieve better gluing strength by wiping the surface of both pieces being glued with acetone first.

Alembic Inc considers cocobolo to be its house wood, and many famous players such as Stanley Clarke use such basses.

Some woodwind instruments, such as clarinets, oboes, and bagpipes, have been successfully made using cocobolo instead of the normal grenadilla (African blackwood).

Doolin and King chose an instrument with a modified jumbo-style body, cocobolo (rosewood) back and sides, and a redwood top.

Articulated mats from South America are made of teak blocks, $66 each at Ad Hoc; also available in black cocobolo wood.

He cuts the carbon steel from sheets, shapes the handles out of oily, hard cocobolo wood, and fastens the rivets and brass bolster.

Chafil Cheucarama's cousin, Selerino Cheucarama is a respected sculpture working in cocobolo wood and tagua seeds.

Some of these trees, like mahogany, cocobolo and purpleheart, are endangered after generations of slashing and burning for cropland and pastures.

The woods he usually uses are domestic, such as walnut and maple, but he does frequently use exotic woods such as cocobolo and bubinga.

The strings are plucked with a triangular plectrum (java) made of polished coconut shell, ebony, cocobolo wood, horn, cowbone, Delrin or other such materials.