Stop the rot. Spotlight on ‘spalted’ timber. 02/08/2016 You can usually quite easily recognise a timber where spalting has occurred – it’s most easily identifiable by the black streaking that occurs through the timber, as shown in the main blog image. Traditionally it is very popular in bowl turning and other timber craft circles and it’s starting to tentatively move into the guitar making world too. So as I am aptly working on a guitar that has spalted maple back and sides, I wanted to explore it a bit further and perhaps dispel any myths about
You can usually quite easily recognise a timber where spalting has occurred – it’s most easily identifiable by the black streaking that occurs through the timber, as shown in the main blog image. Traditionally it is very popular in bowl turning and other timber craft circles and it’s starting to tentatively move into the guitar making world too. So as I am aptly working on a guitar that has spalted maple back and sides, I wanted to explore it a bit further and perhaps dispel any myths about
Welcome to our Blog! 11/01/2015 Hello! Welcome to the Turnstone Blog! This is where we get our chance to write short company-related updates, general guitar related news, general musings with a wandering focus, music related blogs and hopefully in future, we might even get people to write guest blogs for us - which would be pretty cool! Check back every so often to see what's here, as we will update this section fairly regularly. Chat soon! Rosie Photo credit
Hello! Welcome to the Turnstone Blog! This is where we get our chance to write short company-related updates, general guitar related news, general musings with a wandering focus, music related blogs and hopefully in future, we might even get people to write guest blogs for us - which would be pretty cool! Check back every so often to see what's here, as we will update this section fairly regularly. Chat soon! Rosie Photo credit
