Doug fir

[MeyerFittings]

I've got some 100 year old Doug fir that is a full 2"X9" totally quartered about 10 rings to the inch. I made a guitar in the old days with a fir top that sounded fantastic. Does anyone ever use it? Mandolins? It was a very big tree.

[DGerald StephenR]

I've got some 100 year old Doug fir that is a full 2"X9" totally quartered about 10 rings to the inch. I made a guitar in the old days with a fir top that sounded fantastic. Does anyone ever use it? Mandolins? It was a very big tree.

PM'd you Eric

DGSR☺

[Bill Yacey]

The temptation to use fir has been great, as it often is beautifully quarter sawn with even grain spacing, but this wood is hard. I've seen pieces that were difficult to drive a nail through it.