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RobF -> RE: just bought a flamenco guitar on ebay (Dec. 28 2018 0:49:59)
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In my opinion the top is easily spruce made.
I didn’t see port oxford cedar often used in Spain.
That’s the kind reasoning I was using, too. My feeling was that, while it’s certainly possible that the top may be a cypress, it just seems improbable that a manufacturer would go to the trouble and expense of importing what could be considered to be an exotic soundboard wood and then also be willing to incur the additional risk that they might get the treatment of the wood wrong during construction and produce a dog. It doesn’t seem to fit with the kind of business plan that one would expect to be applied to a student guitar, even a higher end one, by a factory or shop.
But that’s just my take on it. Who knows? Maybe they got a deal.
I was also assuming that a Mediterranean cypress wasn’t used for the top or jg would have told us up front that it looked like it was the same wood as the back and sides.
At the end of the day, if the guitar sounds good and plays well and it’s liked, then that’s all that really counts. The price seems to have been very reasonable and it’s a nice looking guitar. Ethan’s suggestion for a smell test is good and pictures also could help, if it matters to dig deeper.
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