{"id":61,"date":"2009-05-29T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=61"},"modified":"2012-08-07T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:28:23","slug":"first-things-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"First things first."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-61 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?attachment_id=173'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/coco_1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?attachment_id=171'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/coco_2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>One of the first and most important considerations when building a guitar is selecting the wood.\u00a0 What you see here are incredible examples of Coco Bolo.\u00a0 Considered by many to be the \u2018king of the tonewoods\u2019, I will be using Coco Bolo for the top and back laminates of the guitar.\u00a0 Coco Bolo is incredibly dense (it does not float).\u00a0 Not only does it look stunning when finished (the pictures above are raw, unfinished samples!), it really helps the instrument deliver a full sound spectrum.\u00a0 After giving Alembic some characteristics to look for, this is the first round of selections sent for my consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Coco Bolo is a tropical wood.\u00a0 Although not technically a rainforest wood, it does grow on the fringes of such climates, particularly along the western coast of Mexico.\u00a0 This wood is highly prized and, at times, has been over-harvested.\u00a0 Alembic tends to use Coco Bolo that has fallen due to hurricanes and tropical storms.\u00a0 They do not support the premature death of\u00a0Dalbergia retusa.\u00a0 Rather, they choose to honor the fallen by giving it a second life as part of a beautiful musical instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first and most important considerations when building a guitar is selecting the wood.\u00a0 What you see here are incredible examples of Coco Bolo.\u00a0 Considered by many to be the \u2018king of the tonewoods\u2019, I will be using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=61\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}