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Topic: Supplier for Pakawood? |
Ben Godard
From:
Jamesville NC
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Posted 4 Nov 2016 6:13 pm |
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Can anyone tell me where to buy pakawood. I am building a guitar and since playing two Dekley's, they have got me hooked on using pakawood. It creates sustain better than most high end guitars. Although their changers aren't the best compared to today's standards.
Anyway, I don't know where to buy it. Can anyone help me out |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 4 Nov 2016 7:19 pm
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It's spelled with two Ks, and it's an engineered wood.
Quite similar to dieboard, it's tougher, stronger and (I think) denser than standard plywood.
If you go surfing the Internet for pakkawood or pakka wood, you'll learn a lot. I'm not sure you'll learn where to buy it; I didn't in the five minutes I just went looking on your behalf.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 4 Nov 2016 7:34 pm
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Followup: my Google Fu has let me down: all I can find are kitchen utensils with pakkawood handles.
Someone somewhere must know how to get it in planks.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Nov 2016 9:39 pm
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You may have luck if you contact this company.
They had a severe fire 2 years ago. Perhaps they have recovered by now. ??
Rutland Plywood Corporation.
92 Park Street • Rutland, VT 05701 USA
T: (802) 747-4000 |
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Doug Earnest
From:
Branson, MO USA
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Posted 5 Nov 2016 5:26 am
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I scoured the internet for it a few years ago and found several sources that supplied it in sizes appropriate for knife handles and gun stocks, but no luck in pieces large enough for a guitar body.
Contacting some of these companies could possibly lead to special order pieces but I gave up on it, figuring that it was going to be pretty expensive for just a few pieces to experiment with. |
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Ben Godard
From:
Jamesville NC
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Dale Rottacker
From:
Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Ben Godard
From:
Jamesville NC
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Posted 6 Nov 2016 11:20 am
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| Diamond wood is impregnated plywood. It's very hard too. But The pakawood that Dekley used is considered stabilized wood. Which is a solid piece of wood impregnated with a resin solution through an autoclave vacuum, then baked at a certain temperature for a certain time. Then end result is a rock hard piece of pakawood. So hard and rigid that it can be machined to hold tolerances of .0005". That is half of a thousandth's if an inch. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 6 Nov 2016 6:10 pm
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| I made some yo yo's from Diamond wood on a lathe years ago. Hard material and all you have to do is finish sanding with 600 sandpaper and polish while spinning and it creates a sealed finish from the risin. Really beautiful colorful grain in the wood. |
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Kim Turnbull
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 7 Nov 2016 1:16 am Dymondwood
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From the Woodworking Network
"Recent times haven't been kind to Rutland. The company downsized several times during the housing crash, and saw its entire plant burn to the ground from a fire in 2014. Most of its employees have taken jobs in other locations, and the company has not announced plans to reopen. Its veneer laminate materials such as Dymondwood, remain popular with manufacturers of gun stocks and knife handles. |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2016 9:17 pm
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After a couple hours on the web. I came upon this site.
RIVER RIDGE PRODUCTS has the last of Rutland's warehouse supply of Dymond wood. They do not list size or color list. Check their web site they list a phone number to call and see what is available. |
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Dale Lee
From:
Down Yonder
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Posted 9 Nov 2016 1:53 pm
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This company claims to be making an equivalent product. But the largest panel size they list is 18"x31.5", which might be a little too short.
https://webbwood.com/ |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 9 Nov 2016 4:25 pm
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Not for keyless
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2016 5:06 pm
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Pakkawood is not a solid piece of "stabilized wood", but many layers of veneer impregnated with resin, and set with heat, pressure, and vacuum as I recall.
I didn't do the ordering, so I don't know where Dekley got the Pakkawood, but I'm pretty sure it was local to the Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA area. I'm pretty sure we had to special order to get the size and thickness we needed, ranging from 1/8" to 1" thick in sheets roughly 18"x36". |
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