Author Topic: Myrtlewood (Read 1650 times)

garyschuler · « **on:** November 18, 2021, 03:33:56 PM »

Check out these slabs. Nice Myrtle.

KenH · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2021, 03:44:56 PM »

Boy, howdy! I'll say that's some special Myrtle! I'd love a full-length-width slice of that about 1/8" thick to make a mountain dulcemore!!

garyschuler · « **Reply #2 on:** November 18, 2021, 04:27:50 PM »

Ken, i will keep you in mind. Might be able to spare a 1” piece. What length are ya looking for? Not guaranteed, but will see what i have left after my project’s.

KenH · « **Reply #3 on:** November 18, 2021, 05:13:54 PM »

A 25" piece would be great (at least a hair over 24" which is the string length I use).

garyschuler · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2021, 06:17:12 PM »

Ok Ken. I’ll keep in touch.

Flem · « **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2021, 11:25:13 PM »

Thats some beautiful Myrtle

What are your plans for it?

garyschuler · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2021, 08:41:05 PM »

Flem, i’m going to use mist for Tables and Countertops and the trim that is big enough will go for bow wood and other craft wood projects.

KenH · « **Reply #7 on:** November 21, 2021, 09:18:24 AM »

Here's couple pix of an Anglo-Saxon Lyre I made a couple years back with a 1x8 x 39" plank of Oregon Myrtle for the body and a 1/8" thin Port Orford Cedar plank for the soundboard/top

Buemaker · « **Reply #8 on:** November 21, 2021, 10:31:40 AM »

Lyre looks great and Myrtle is really special.

Flem · « **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2021, 11:04:54 AM »

Myrtle is special, but a lot more common than its mystique would imply. It grows all over California and a small area in Oregon and is known as California Bay Laurel. If you are traveling to that area, you can, if resourceful, pick up all you want for free. Not many folks milling or burning wood down there. I picked up all I had room for, few years back when visiting some friends.

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #10 on:** November 21, 2021, 11:59:07 AM »

Ken, that is awesome..

garyschuler · « **Reply #11 on:** November 21, 2021, 03:25:18 PM »

Nice Ken. !!

KenH · « **Reply #12 on:** November 21, 2021, 04:06:08 PM »

Thanks guys. One of my other hobbies...

Mad Max · « **Reply #13 on:** November 21, 2021, 04:08:07 PM »

Nice slabs Gary
Nice job Ken

Longcruise · « **Reply #14 on:** November 21, 2021, 04:50:04 PM »

Beautiful workmanship on that lyre.

KenH · « **Reply #15 on:** November 21, 2021, 08:00:03 PM »

FWIW, here's another Lyre. The first one is based on a finding at an archaeological dig near Oberflacht, Germany, dating back to the 700s. This one is from a dig near Cologne dating back to the 800s. The soundboard is spalted Mango, the body is Maple, and the bridge is carved Baltic Amber. 8" wide, 21" long...

garyschuler · « **Reply #16 on:** November 21, 2021, 09:16:35 PM »

Nice. What do they sound like. Guitar.? , Violin. Ukulele?

Flem · « **Reply #17 on:** November 21, 2021, 09:44:59 PM »

Sounds like a Pagan Bacchanalia

Shredd · « **Reply #18 on:** November 21, 2021, 09:55:00 PM »

Nice stuff, guys...

KenH · « **Reply #19 on:** November 21, 2021, 11:16:06 PM »

They sound "soft" sorta like a uke, but not as high pitched. They weren't used to sing along with -- that hadn't been invented yet! Only 5 notes to the pentatonic scale, but no sequence of notes you pluck ever sounds bad together. They were used as background music at feasts, and also by storytellers/bards to help them remember where they were when reciting long stories and sagas, as well a teaching far-flung people history, current events, and the rules of 'polite society'.

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