Beautiful Mahogany Planks

It's a beautiful morning here in Woodburn, Indiana. 60 degrees, sunny, light breeze. When I got to work this morning, there was a big truck in the parking lot with a huge load of lumber. African mahogany and black walnut. We got some amazing stuff this time! Very few knots, plus a couple of curly walnut boards that somehow missed the sort (where they keep the best grades) at the lumber mill.

We use the forklift to unload the semi-truck, and then haul the planks of wood inside, by hand, one at a time. This is the last board we had to move - a 16" wide, 2" thick, and 13' long plank of African mahogany. It was heavy! Cheyenne (in the photo) took one end, I grabbed the other end, and we brought in inside. I'll end up getting twelve LAP-JO® rims (bodies), plus some assorted standard dulcimer parts (backs and sides, probably - the grain goes the wrong way to get fretboards) out of this one plank.