Morado Wood Guitar

It is heavy brownish orange wood with dark black stripes.

Morado wood guitar. Pau ferro is a wood of many names. Bolivian also known as bolivian rosewood or morado. It is widely used as a rosewood substitute although care has to taken when handling the wood as it is a strong sensitiser able to trigger acute dermatitis inflammation of the skin. Morado is actually a real wood which is similar to rosewood.

Pao ferro has a janka approximately 3000 and a specific gravity of 082. Ill see if i can post a pdf of the spec sheet that i have every guitar that they made in the brazil series and indeed every series except the all solid wood professional series is listed as having a cedar neck steel string and nylon string alike the all solid wood series went to rosewood back and sides and a mahogany neck. Guitar makers generally favor quartersawn wood because it provides added stiffness and dimensional stability. The rosewoods as well as their various rain forest cousins cocobolo kingwood morado and the like have strongly pronounced low overtones.

Equally important are the design of the guitar the skill of the maker and the quality of the individual pieces of wood from which the guitar is made. All were flat surfaces guitar picks all were done at the same time 5 coats half hour intervals 24 hours flip and repeat except i let them cure for 3 days before i had a chance to look at them. As a nonporous wood it easy to finish. Most of the material that begot the perception of quality in the rose wood family is now long gone old growth trees so perhaps its time to re evaluate our preferences.

Many guitar and bass bodies are made from mahoganythere are 49 types of mahogany but many are practically extinct because of the woods popularity for furniture and musical instruments and the types used today are not the same as the mahogany used in guitars in the 1940s or 1950s. For example musical instrument manufacturers such as fender increasingly use morado in their production. If i remember correctly some folks refer to it as bolivian rw much like taylor uses the term african mahogany which is not to be confused with tropical s. Pau ferro wood as an indian rosewood alternative.

It is also known by the names morado palo santo caviuna brazilian ironwood and bolivian rosewood though it is not actually rosewood. With east indian rosewood on cites pau ferro is the logical rosewood alternative. Soft woods like spruce may be split rather than sawn into boards so the board surface follows the grain as much as possible thus limiting run out. In guitar making pau ferro is mainly used for fingerboards and bridges.