Echi -> RE: Cardboard back and sides (Nov. 3 2019 17:14:50)
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Many sources suggest that back and sides have less influence than most of the people may think. In fact this suggests that is better to invest in excellent tops than to spend a fortune in exotic woods for back and sides... Given this, factors like mass and dampening of the wood are the major factors, whatever the species used. Paul Fisher worked quite a lot in comparing guitars made with alternative woods and recently the project Leonardo added even beef to the test. Coming back to Torres, I met a luthier (Francesco de Gregorio) who basically is experienced in copies of the Torres papier maché guitar, which he replicates with different woods. He thinks some woods give better results than other. Again, just recently David La Plante put to sale his Torres cardboard guitar and shared his opinion about the cardboard: by his words it's easy quite to get that cardboard is not an ideal material (as obvious) both for workability and tone and Cypress would add a little more brilliance and depth to the note.
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