{"id":91,"date":"2009-08-03T20:37:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=91"},"modified":"2012-08-07T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:33:16","slug":"bookmatched-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Bookmatched beauty."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"body_content\">\n<div id=\"nav_layer\">\n\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-91 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?attachment_id=201'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/top_bookmatch-150x150.jpg\" 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 landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?attachment_id=200'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/back_bookmatch-150x150.jpg\" 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>When you take a fetal pig and slice it open, the visual results can sometimes be less than pleasing.\u00a0 If you\u2019re really unlucky, your lab partner will vomit on the floor.\u00a0 Other things that occur in nature are a bit more beautiful when you open them up.\u00a0 Old growth Coco Bolo is one of those things.\u00a0 The last major wood decisions have been made &#8211; deciding exactly where to cut the Coco Bolo.\u00a0 For me, the next step in turning this Coco Bolo into a guitar was to bookmatch it.\u00a0 In woodworking, bookmatching is when a piece of wood is sliced lengthwise, then opened up so the two slices face each other (much like two consecutive pages of a book).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"body_layer\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>I decided to bookmatch the outer laminates of the body sandwich for two reasons.\u00a0 One, it just looks beautiful when you\u2019re working with otherworldly wood.\u00a0 The second reason is a bit more left-brained.\u00a0 When you bookmatch wood, you have close to (but not exactly &#8211; this is Mother Nature we\u2019re talking about) a mirror image of wood grain.\u00a0 This makes expansion and contraction a bit more predictable, or at least more-or-less uniform across the width of the guitar.\u00a0 You generally get stronger construction and more consistent performance out of your instrument when the laminates are bookmatched.\u00a0 These Coco Bolo laminates have been bookmatched to a thickness of 1\/4\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>You never know what you\u2019re going to get when you slice wood open&#8230; Sometimes you get a face (a wood gnome), while other times, there\u2019s not much there at all.\u00a0 When my top board was sliced open, it revealed a beautiful butterfly!\u00a0 This wood is something special, and I can\u2019t wait to see it with some sealer applied!<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, we decided that the guitar would look better if the top accent laminates of Maple and Purpleheart were also bookmatched to center, along with the Coco Bolo.\u00a0 Alembic sanded off the top accent laminates that were glued to the body sandwich, and they\u2019ll apply new wood to the Coco Bolo, so the accent lines are not interrupted by the neck at the bout.\u00a0 The lower accent laminates will remain as is, again to match the bottom Coco Bolo laminate (which is bookmatched, just not to center).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you take a fetal pig and slice it open, the visual results can sometimes be less than pleasing.\u00a0 If you\u2019re really unlucky, your lab partner will vomit on the floor.\u00a0 Other things that occur in nature are a bit &hellip; 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