26 Mar
2012
26 Mar
'12
11:40 a.m.
On 25 Mar 2012 at 10:40, William Donzelli wrote:
...and plenty of fake "rosewood", going back to the 19th century as=20
well as being present on many cheap Chinese knockoff guitar models,=20
so if you go the used route, be very careful.
If you're after the "look", consider various painting techniques to=20
simulate the appearance of rosewood (see previous paragraph).
I thnik if I was in this position, I'd want to use whatever was used
originally by DEC. If thst was genuine rosewood (and so far I've not seen
a definite statement that it was), then (alas for the 'greens') that's
what I would try to get. I don't think the amount needed to repair _one_
PDP8 would do that much ecological damage....
-tony
> Please don't use real rosewood for the
side panels.=A0=A0 Forests aro=
und
the world
are being destroyed for this increasingly rare commodity.
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There is plenty of old rosewood kicking around, from scrapped
furniture. Not super cheap, but available.