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Originally Posted by Ray Rogers
Wear your respirator and long sleeve shirts with cocobolo, the dust is highly toxic. Although many people work with cocobolo for years with no obvious reaction others react to it and other tropical woods very quickly. The effect is cumulative, it took me about 10 years of occasional use to become sensitized to it. Once it happened I found I could no longer even stand to be in the same room with a vintage rosewood guitar that I owned. Hopefully, you won't experience this sort of thing but don't take chances with it....
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A very, very important thing to remember, but this advise is in no way limited to cocobolo. Really you should be wearing a respirator when working any wood, wood dust isn't something that belongs in your lungs, but most oily or tropical woods are known as sensitizers, even if they aren't flat out toxic. With repeated exposure your body starts to develop a reaction to them, and it gets worse.