BUBINGA - Guibourtia demeusii from Camaroon - 'African Rosewood' Acoustic guitar tonewood set.

[@rsmart4359]

Thank you for the great videos! I usually watch them with my nine-month-old and he loves the tap tones. It's amazing how you reach such a broad audience! 😁

[@thunderbugcreative7778]

Nice set! I've got a little known 1997 Gibson CL-35 with Bub back and sides. It is the most incredible and crystal clear sounding guitar I've ever heard. Beautiful as well.

[@chrismccannIRL]

Lovely wood with a great smell. I’ve a custom Martin with quilted bubinga and it’s stunning

[@TomSandsGuitars]

Sounds great!

[@kevingreene6893]

Yeah... like that one Tom. Tap-tone sounds promising! Really enjoying the series Tom - totally understand you taking a wee break - timely:) We all need to delve into the finance generation machine regardless of how much fun we’re having elsewhere... and thou really do need to get on with building those awesome guitars my friend... enjoy your break! K.

[@edwardpetersen4309]

Mango has taken the ukulele world by storm. Well crafted ukes built out of all Mango; top, back and sides have been fabulous in my experience. Sweet, rich and loud. Wonder if it could be used for steel strung guitars?

[@PeteBrownGuitars]

Looking forward to building with my one and only set of bubinga (which bears little resemblance to your set). With the current CITES restrictions, it's likely to be my first and last bubinga guitar.

[@pmwhitlock]

If you watch with closed captions it captions the tap tone as [Music].

[@nedludd3641]

The top does the resonating, the back and sides have to be firm to reflect all the vibrations and sound waves back to the top? Different tone woods vary the base/midrange/treble response. For example mahogany levels out midrange response, so it is useful when using recording equipment? Rose wood diminishes midrange so it's useful for vocal performance? Have I got any of that right or am I chatting complete nonsense? What is TS discovering when he taps the boards in these vids?

[@leesamorrow6746]

You are funny as hell. And a wealth of knowledge. I have heard some of your guitars, too, BTW, and they are spectacular. You can clearly do more than tap wood.

[@TomSandsGuitars]

Oh thank you so much, that really appreciate it

[@GuitarSVD]

Lovely! Much prefer this straight grain bubinga over the quilted ones :)

[@FabioLovaglio]

Question: why nobody seems to build tops with very dark woods (black-ish) and leave them unfinished? I would kill to see something like that!

[@MrHeliosoul]

@Tom Sands absolutely beautiful wood! Love your channel. Sorry if I'm way off, but I sense that you were under a good amount of stress and not your usual self in today's video. Never gotten that feeling before in any of your videos. You good?

[@TomSandsGuitars]

thanks for checking in! you're very astute, i was quite tired!

[@MrHeliosoul]

@@TomSandsGuitars Alright brother! Much love and gratitude to you my friend.

[@Mike-kl1qc]

I love these videos. Would this wood make a good neck? Anyone try purple heart? I just got some of this and purple heart with amazing figure.

[@petehowlett3966]

I made weissenborns from this stuff 25 years ago - seam separation was a problem.

[@TomSandsGuitars]

Wow! Top too?

[@peterjames2580]

Thanks for the BUBINGA I'm going out to the shop and tap my set!!!!

[@JimB802]

You must have data notes of the wood next to the camera!

[@travisnewman954]

Hey there sir, not sure if this is the place to ask a question not so much relative to the bubinga. I've been doing a lot of researching in regards to soundboard timber as well as back and sides, however there doesn't seen to be as much interest or maybe just not as much information on top plates. What I have found on carpathian spruce in particular lead me to purchase a couple of sets. After recently receiving them, I was quite impressed with the weight to strength, as well as the tight grain and overall creamy uniform color...very aesthically pleasing. Anyway, I was hoping you might provide some professional insight on carpathian, and possibly its comparison to other top plate timbers, particularly adirondack? I really enjoy and appreciate all of your videos and experience that you share. Thanks a lot.

[@TomSandsGuitars]

hey Travis! i really like carp and built with it a number of times, havent had any for a while but i'd like to do a run down of all the commonly used tops. stay tuned!

[@travisnewman954]

@@TomSandsGuitars Thank you, I'll be looking forward to it!

[@normbarrows]

I just completed a build with a bubinga body and carbon fiber tube neck. While pretty, I found the wood hard to work, and more expensive than other options. It had little to no effect on the tone of an electric build. It may be better at preserving and transmitting treble frequencies, similar to other "bright" woods such as hard maple. But there wasn't enough of a tonal difference from either the body or neck to make me say "I should use bubinga on all my builds" or "I should use carbon fiber on all my builds". On the needs vs nice vs bling scale, carbon fiber is a best nice (no truss rod required), and bubinga is basically just bling. And both are difficult to work, and more expensive than other suitable materials.

[@GuitaraddictsWorkshop]

I have a set of bubinga that I am thinking of building a parlour guitar from. What do you think would make a good looking binding to go with it?

[@NelsonGago]

Who the hell doesn’t watch this on the day it is released?

[@treelady1993]

How do you spell the word you used to describe the interlocked grain

[@TomSandsGuitars]

I don’t know which word you’re referring too

[@thierryloison2875]

But what do you think about padouk ??

[@tomdalia5284]

Boobungah

[@thawthaw03]

What if i dye bubinga top?

[@TomSandsGuitars]

Try it

[@nedludd3641]

Is this where bunga bunga parties originated from? People took wood to bar-b-ques and all sat around tapping it?

[@mariustaraldsen4687]

How about Brazilian tiger tree? 🐯

[@TomSandsGuitars]

is this a real thing??

[@saoirsepaddy]

I wonder if the tree/ wood knows they have a funny Latin names. My Bird & I was at some Stately Home with a Beautiful Garden some where in Cheshire , England . It's funny People going around pointing at shrubberies , flowers & trees and calling out the Latin name, I turn to my Lady Em and said I wound if these plants know they being called these funny Latin names no one can pronounce. Lady Em started laughing and she said They're to busy trying to pronounce the Latin word. They totally forget to take in the Beautiful of the flower .

[@sduos-ws6ov]

You are not pronouncing it correctly, doing it english way, latin must be pronunced italian way. sort of. however, as a luthier, you are great. thank you.

[@TomSandsGuitars]

I have absolutely no doubt that I’m doing a terrible job of pronouncing most of the botanical names 🤣