This is a cutaway acoustic electric guitar, which as the name suggests features solid cocobolo on its back and sides. Tone woods don’t get much more decorative than this. Just look at the ...

Cocobolo or cocobola (Dalbergia retusa) is one of the most beautiful woods in the world. (Sometimes cocobolo is called Nicaragua rosewood. In Mexico, the wood is called granadillo.) The Dalbergia ...

Thin-layer chromatography performed with the extract of the shavings revealed (R)-4-methoxydalbergione and obtusaquinone (the main components of cocobolo wood) and (S)-4'-hydroxy-4 ...

But the South Korean brand’s acoustic guitars – from the entry-level models such as the super-affordable, MusicRadar-approved GA-DAO to the high-end Gold series models – are no less impressive, and ...

Timber from Cocobolo trees — a relative of Rosewood used in expensive gunstocks, knife handles and high-end carpentry — now fetches between $3,000 and $4,000 a ton, causing swathes of the forest to be ...

But after stepping out of the truck the damage came into view. A tangle of branches and leaves was all that was left of a stand of precious cocobolo hardwood trees that had stood there a month before.

On March 28 and 31, Panamanian police seized two containers at ports in the northern city of Colón, carrying a species of local wood, known as cocobolo, on their way to China. Jointly, the two ...