David asked:
> Jack - do you know if anyone uses laburnum wood? From the enthusiasm a local
> turner showed for a cut-down laburnum of ours, and his comments about the
> wood, it sounds as if it might be usable.
Dick Rutter in Edinburgh? A few months ago, he showed me a fiddle he'd made
from an incredibly hard, dark coloured wood. I'm embarrassed to say I've
forgotten what it was- not one of the usual woods for fiddle-making.
The fiddle played very well, as his fiddles do.
Derek
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