TONE TIMBER: That's Englemann spruce for the top, rosewood for the sides, mahogany for the neck and ebony for the fingerboard ... a nice visual mix, too.
Precious bois de rose trees are now hard to find in Madagascar.
BLOOD-red sawdust coats every surface in the small carpentry workshop, where Primo Jean Besy is at the lathe fashioning vases out of ruby-coloured logs.
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