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Old 08-11-2017, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by The Bard Rocks View Post
But I will agree with your last statement that they are not considered traditional. To mess with you, let me mention birch. Most would not call it traditional but boy a lot of guitars in the 20's and 30's were made from it.
Let me add a significant vignette to your statistic: my Grandfather courted his sweetheart, my future Grandmother, with his White Oak guitar. It worked, and they were happily wed for decades. Which is definitive proof that alternative tonewoods can get the job done.



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