A note about sets 15, 16, and 17:

To say you can't buy guitar wood like this anymore is a gross understatement. You never could buy guitar wood like this. The "best of the best" wood always went to the veneer mills where it was sliced up for high end veneers. When the board got too thin for the slicing equipment to hold on to it was sold as a veneer core.

In about 1975 I got a call from Boulder, Colorado wood dealer Paul Killinger saying he had some Bolivian Rosewood veneer cores that I might be interested in. They weren't in good shape, most were too split up to do much with and all were sunbleached to a dull gray color. I bought a few of the nicer ones. When I got home and planned one of them down I was astounded. Here was Brazilian Rosewood the likes of which I'd never seen before. I went back and bought all of it that looked remotely usable. When I got them all planned I realized that most of them were indeed Bolivian Rosewood. Sometime after that I related this to Paul, and showed him the wood. He did concur that it was Brazilian but never quite got around to believing I had purchased it from him as Bolivian.