Guild t 100 d brazilian rosewood fretboard.

[guitarlover]

Still on the " hunt" for a vintage (semi) hollow guild. I sawv very nice t 100 d from around 1959. But is the fretboard on these guitars made from brazilian rosewood ? In ads this is often claimed but this would make importing the guitar in de EU complicated (CITES). So I rather prefer it is not.

 

[GAD]

I'm no wood expert and I can't claim any real knowledge, but the fretboard on my '58 T100 doesn't look like Brazilian to me.

 

[guitarlover]

 

[guitarlover]

Sorry same picture twice. Current owndr also said no brazilian rosewood. I wonder how customs will react if they do their research and read everywhere that it is brzailian rosewood !

 

[hansmoust]

I'm no wood expert and I can't claim any real knowledge, but the fretboard on my '58 T100 doesn't look like Brazilian to me.

Current owndr also said no brazilian rosewood.

As far as I can tell from the photos it appears to be Brazilian rosewood on both!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[guitarlover]

And who are we to disagree with your opinion ! Thanks again . Too bad but I'm not going to take risks. Not only financially if the instrument is seized by customs but also it would be a shame for the instrument itself if one should decide to destroy it.

 

[guitarlover]

In a way this makes it easier : now I have too choose between a 1968 x 175 and or a more recent x 170 ! ( Have made a list of guitars that can be purchased and these are the two that are still on it)

 

[GAD]

And today I learned more about Brazilian rosewood, which is mostly that I absolutely can't identify it.

 

[Default]

Probably Braz on the 68?

 

[guitarlover]

Don't know but the x 175 is already in Europe

 

[kakerlak]

As far as I can tell from the photos it appears to be Brazilian rosewood on both!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

I was gonna say the same. So is CITES just a crapshoot? Is anything rosewood presumed Brazilian unless proven otherwise (via some sort of lumber certificate?) Are they really pulling/checking old guitars? I always figured it was something more aimed at raw lumber shipments, rather than finished goods (particularly person-to-person shipments of decades-old merchandise).

 

[guitarlover]

From what I read concerning Braz. It is also aimed at finished instruments.

 

[fronobulax]

I was gonna say the same. So is CITES just a crapshoot? Is anything rosewood presumed Brazilian unless proven otherwise (via some sort of lumber certificate?) Are they really pulling/checking old guitars? I always figured it was something more aimed at raw lumber shipments, rather than finished goods (particularly person-to-person shipments of decades-old merchandise).

There are stories. These include Customs officers who cannot correctly determine whether rosewood is Brazilian and so confiscate instruments that should not be taken. There is not yet any accepted documentation that will allow instruments to be safely transported. So the conservative approach is to not try and export an instrument if you cannot afford, emotionally and financially, to have it confiscated and probably destroyed. If we weren't missing Al before, we are missing him now because he cn cite chapter and verse for many CITES related issues.

 

[Default]

Didn't they create a waver for musical instruments?

 

[GAD]

Yeah where's Al when we need him!

Just a counter to the fear of confiscation, when I bought my SF4 from Canada the UPS Customs guy asked me, "Any Brazilian?" I said, "nope!!" and that was that. Seems like a crap shoot.

 

[guitarlover]

Default : for "normal" rosrwood there is no problem with cites anymore for instruments but for brazilian the restrictions remain in my opinion.