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tijeretamiel -> RE: I need your opinion in this spruce (Nov. 9 2014 11:14:58)
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ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson
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I actually really, really like the look of stripy soundboards.
Not a flamenco but a steel string made by Laurent Brondel
I agree. That top is full of life. I personally like "imperfect" wood a lot, but since making guitars is my way of earning some money, I stay away from it.
The most boring looking guitar IMHO, is the "perfect" negra or classical: Mastergrade, white spruce. Dark, straightgrained and monocolor Rosewood. A factory made mosaic rosette or a handmade copy of a factory rosette etc.
There are so many of them and its such a lack of inspiration.
I agree. I find the higher grade Indian Rosewood backs often to be so uniform in colour and stripes they can look really boring, I prefer some of the 'lower' grade ones which have more uneven colours.
Pleased you share my appreciation for stripy soundboards! I personally believe the stripier the better!
It's a shame that soundboards in particular are judged often purely on physical appearance on how uniform grain and lines are. Some of the best sounding guitars I've tried have had soundboards that have had really uneven looking soundboards for grain.
I was reading of a really highly regarded USA luthier/spruce seller who was saying he sold sets of Adirondack Spruce sometimes for $20 a set, the ones which were less than perfect but had great acoustic qualities nonetheless and others for $100's which perfect in appearance but were inferior in acoustic qualities. The luthier in question said most of his low priced Adirondack soundboards went to China, and some of the MIC guitars sounded better than USA built guitars which he had supplied soundboards too as well.
It's a shame so many guitarists judge a sound by the guitar's visual appearance.
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