The next five lots are from musician Bill Ward, All three…
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The next five lots are from musician Bill Ward, All three electric guitars were built under the brand name 'FOMI' owned by Bill Ward, ex Four Fours, Human Instinct and leader of the Bonneville Band. The Human Instinct were one of the first New Zealand bands to make a name in the UK moving in 1966 and playing with many well-known contemporary bands such as The Rolling Stones, Spencer Davis Group, 10cc and Status Quo, FOMI 'Katipo' 6 string electric guitar, black painted rimu body with airbrushed spider. GFS Alnico wound Humbucker pickups. Gibson hard tail and bridge. 24 fret rosewood fretboard on a maple neck with Gotoh tuners. With hardcover 'coffin' case.

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  • Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.

    Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
  • Rosewood - A dense timber that varies in shade to very light brown to almost black. When rosewood is cut and sanded the colour of the timber will turn black, and after polishing and exposure to daylight, the surface will gradually lighten over time to light brown with black streaks.

    The name comes from the odour emanating from the timber when it is planed, sanded or cut.

    Rosewood was very popular for use in Victorian furniture in the second half of the 19th century, and at that time most of the rosewood was imported from Brazil. However it also grows in India and Indonesia.

    It is used in the sold for chairs and table legs, but for carcase furniture such as side cabinets and bookcases, and for table tops it is always used as a veneer.

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