[TBman]

Originally Posted by Frozen Rat

I can only judge this by my own guitars. My 00 Skye is so responsive that you barely touch a string and you get a nice response. I can play it just hitting strings on the frets and it plays loud. If I cough in my room, every one of my Adirondack guitars rings out in response (it's kinda weird and cool). Cedar, in my opinion, needs a stronger attack to ring out than Adirondack or even Sitka, and it gets mushy with too much enthusiasm applied.

Take the Skye 00 again as an example. It was designed by a finger style guitarist for, fingerstyle, and his choice was Adirondack for the top for that purpose. The old Blues finger style guitars from the 30s and 40s mostly used Adirondack. Must be something to it if one sees it on a lot of guitars designed mainly for finger style.

Cedar is a bit too subdued for my tastes. I always seem to gravitate to the Adirondack over everything else.

Thanks FR.