Good stuff. Yes - European spruce.
Yard trees = wide grain and dense wood... The tree doesnt have the forest to support it - so it grows harder, more dense wood... Fast growth = wide grain... Often 1 to 5 rings per inch. Not generally what we are looking for....
Unless you made a point to prune off the bottom branches when the tree was small and through the years as it has grown - you likely have a bunch of knots inside the tree where you would really like to find a top.... Not impossible, but more difficult to cut clean tops without pin knots and knot shadow. M
But is can make a fine guitar.
And - if you have to take it out anyway - you may as well get some good wood out of it.
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