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CookWoods is a family owned and operated company in Southern Oregon. For over 20 years, it's been our goal to bring you amazing exotic and domestic hardwoods that are unique, rare and beautiful! From wood slabs and turning blanks to specialty lumber, guitar wood and more, our inventory of individually pictured wood is the largest in the industry! We are a full service sawmill, milling logs into wood slabs, turning blanks, and hardwood lumber right here on site. Our commitment to great customer service and superior exotic wood truly sets us apart. We're excited to provide exactly what you need for your next woodworking project!

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Exotic hardwoods refer to species imported from outside of North America. These species can come from tropical climates such the Amazon region or equitorial Africa, but they may also come from dry climates, such as Mexico or Australia. Not all exotic woods come from the rainforest and many of the species we import are not typically commercial species, some of which are being overharvested. We try to find new and exciting species that will give our customers options for their woodworking projects.

Rocky regularly travels to most every location that we are importing wood from to do our due diligence and reassure ourselves that our suppliers are practicing sustainable and legal forestry. We hope to continue to supply our customers with unique, new species for many years to come.

Our exotic lumber is sold by the board foot, with a minimum order of 10 board foot for online orders. Please enter in the board foot amount you are looking for in the quantity section.

Hi guys. I haven't posted here in a while Lotsa stuff happening here but I still manage to play some guitar. Anyways, I just got an Ibanez EW20ASE Exotic Wood Acoustic Electric and I just wanted to know if anybody else has this gutar or at least has experience with it.

So far, the guitar is working out great for me. I just need to have the action adjusted because it's a bit high for me. I chose it over the Artwood series mostly because of how it looks ( I know, I know; n0ob behavior right there) but also because it sounds nice.

I'm an Ibanez owner and fan but I also prefer the Artwood series. As you noted, the ExoticWood models are designed to look cool. Unfortunately, they're all laminated and use less-than-ideal tonewoods so the sound suffers. The Artwood series has solid spruce or cedar tops and some of the newer models are all solid wood. I'm not adverse to a nice looking guitar: I think my AW120 looks really sweet. But I bought it for its tone, not its looks.

I played all of them at the NAMM Show. My son was very interested (on first inspection) because they are very cool looking.... I mean extremely cool looking. BUT, the sizzle wore of quickly when we put our fingers on the strings. They were all set up well, but tonally, they were... well... pathetic. (IMHO). They were definitely laminate sounding, where the notes stayed within the body, with little string separation, and very poor projection. So much cool, so little sound.

My son decided on a Walden G740CE (solid top, solid back, lam sides), which sound great and plays great. He just looked over my shoulder, read this, and said he was really glad he bought the Walden. Me too. Actually, I find myself wandering into his room when he wasn't at home just to play it.

Well, I've played around with my Ibanez EW20 for about 2 months now and I can say that I think I'm going to sell it and try to get an Artwood model. With that being said, I have two choices right now...

By the way, before you guys suggest Martins, Taylors, Maten, etc., I think I'll let you know that good acoustic guitars are extremely hard to get in the Philippines where I live. We have very few brands to try and Ibanez is the brand I found to be most consistent. The other two brands we have are Yamaha and Ovation which I both don't really like.

I have one Ibanez dread AW500 (art wood). It's dificult to find a better dread in the same price range. But I have friend a who tells me: "You have lucky with your guitars, even the cheap ones sound very good!"

I own 16 electric gutiars, one bass, and two acoustic guitars. 14 of the electrics are Ibanez, and 12 of those are old school. But I wouldn't ever buy any of the Ibanez guitars. No, not even the Artwoods or even the Vai Euphoria. A used Tacoma is about the best bang for the buck when it comes to a quality Acoustic (made in the USA no less) that doesn't sound like ass.

I walked into Guitar Center 6 years ago with $3k, dead set on buying an expensive Gibson Jumbo, and I walked out with a $600 Tacoma DM9 that I'd never sell. I've seen them for as little as $200 on the used market. Edit: of course, I wish they had the Tayloer 614CE at the time. Something about the bright tone of maple back and sides that just does it for me.

Been there dude. When I first got the guitar, It thought it sounded okay and it of course looked great. Still, I kept on wondering what would've been the Artwood like. So I got around to trying different kinds of Artwoods over a period of two months and as far as I could tell, they sound SO MUCH better than the EW.

First, that's a very strange looking AW40 in the first image, it looks more like an AW120. The AW40 traditionally has a natural finish with the "tree of life" inlay on the fingerboard. The AW120 has the "Resonant Dark Violin" finish like what's in the image you posted

Second, be careful about buying anything with the newer version of the "Resonant Dark Violin" finish. The newer Chinese made models aren't up to the standard of the Korean models like mine. My AW120 has a "sunburst" looking top that's about the color of mahogany with black around the edges, like what's in the image you posted. The last new AW120 I saw was just a dull dark brown all over. You couldn't even see the grain of the wood. I understand at least some of the other new models are similar, although the only new Artwood I've seen lately is the AW120. That said, I have no idea what the difference is. I think you'd probably like either if you can find a good one.

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Hi, I will be making 2 keepsake boxes for my sister. I was given some old teak flooring which I will be making the boxes out of. If the wood is wiped down with spirit or thinner prior to finishing with a teak oil for outdoor use but thinned to 50/50 with thinner would the finish last? It would be finished off with bees wax or would it be better to just put bees wax only on the wood after wiping it down with thinner or solvent?

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Now, we can play games, and do certain things to slow this progression (see tips below), but just realize: you are only slowing the inevitable. The wood is in the process of oxidizing and shifting in color, and it will do so sooner, or it will do so later, but it will still happen.

The poster, Worldwide Woods, Ranked by Hardness, should be required reading for anyone enrolled in the school of wood nerdery. I have amassed over 500 wood species on a single poster, arranged into eight major geographic regions, with each wood sorted and ranked according to its Janka hardness. Each wood has been meticulously documented and photographed, listed with its Janka hardness value (in lbf) and geographic and global hardness rankings. Consider this: the venerable Red oak (Quercus rubra) sits at only #33 in North America and #278 worldwide for hardness! Aspiring wood nerds be advised: your syllabus may be calling for Worldwide Woods as part of your next assignment!

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