Flader
English translation: grain/grain pattern
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| 5 +1 | grain/grain pattern |
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| 4 | vein (in metals or wood), flaw, streak, knot |
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vein (in metals or wood), flaw, streak, knot Explanation: This is what it says in my (not very new) Cassell's New German Dictionary |
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peer agreement (net): +1grain/grain pattern Explanation: The African Rosewood (Wenge/African Palisander), Millettia laurentii, has very prominent and attractive grain patterns when cut in particular directions. Tangential cuts produce some spectacular patterns that are used, for instance, for furniture, flooring and veneers and by numerous musical instrument makers for the bodies or parts of guitars. For example, Alembic, Ibanez and Cort guitars, Warwick bass guitars and others. The link is to a Warwick bass with various Rosewoods, including a fingerboard in Wenge Some of the grain patterns for African Rosewood/Wenge are shown here: http://tinyurl.com/lbj583y Here is a particularly prominent grain pattern on a Wenge fingerboard: http://www.wynguitars.com/images/wood/fingerboard-wenge.jpg which could be described as a "wilde Flader" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2013-11-11 22:41:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Link to the Warwick bass: http://www.usedprice.com/items/guitars-musical-instruments/w... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2013-11-11 22:45:35 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Here's an example of Wenge used in furniture making which also shows the rich coffee-brown basic colour and lighter and darker grain patterns http://tinyurl.com/n8x4x5s |
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