the finish is several coats of polyurethane

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right: a walnut crotch backed by a lamination of 1/12" mahogany veneer and hard maple veneer and to the left of that a piece of aromatic red cedar with sapwood
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<br>front is cocobolo backed by pau amerello, rear is macassar ebony

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