I just bought some cocobolo for a top wood to use for a bass sometime in the future.I live in Hawaii and the weather can be dry to humid and everything in between.Right now I have it covered in plastic and laying down flat with some weight on top of it so it dosen't warp. Is this a good way to store it?

What are the dimensions of the wood?

33 inches long by 11 1/2 bookmatched and 1/4 inch thick

That's going to make an interesting looking instrument...
 
JP

NICE wood!
 
Bill, tgo

Wow.

Ever considered a rectangular instrument? I wouldn't  have the heart to lose even one millimeter of that board!! It doesn't look real. It's almost as if the grain pattern was drawn on the wood! Who/Where did you find this piece?  Wait a minute! I think I've got it! we're looking at spalted cocobolo! Wow I didn't think that was possible. Mike
 
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Looks like it was painted by Edvard Munch.

Wow, what a superb piece. Am I the only one seeing a lady in a flimsy blouse?
 
Graeme

Nope ...this twisted mind here too!
 
Paul TBO
 
anyway ...great minds think alike HA

I can conjure a lot of images from that wood but a lady in a flimsy blouse isn't one of them.  Must have something to do with the long North Atlantic winters.
That's a piece of wood I would love to see in person.  It looks 3D
 
From the balmy part of the Atlantic,
Sam

Sam:
 
Think of the lighter colored areas as her skin.  The upside down triangle of light wood at the top in the middle is her throat surrounded by the plunging neckline of the shirt, which then opens up to bare the midriff.  
 
I guess I'm just as sick as you guys.  LOL
 
Bill, tgo

Ahhh, Bill, of course!  And the 3D part is...
 
I need to get out more.

If that is the case, I don't think that ban the bra thing is working out too well.

And I thought I was losing it seeing the AlemBird and the black helicopters!  I can't see the girl, this wood is just other-worldly, some real Martian wood.
 
JeanLuc, regarding a rectangular instrument for this singular piece of cocoB, wouldn't it make the ULTIMATE Bo Diddley?
 
J o e y