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Originally Posted by ljguitar
Hi Gw...
Have you considered that if the wood is only cosmetically flawed and is acoustically sound it might be preferable to use it for burst or shaded tops?
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that's what i was thinking. if a piece of spruce has the right stiffness and everything else that a luthier is looking for in a good top, but might have some visual weirdness that could be covered by a burst, they might just figure its best to use that top for a sunburst model. no luthier worth his/her salt would try to pass off an inferior piece of wood (sound-wise). what would be the sense of making bad sounding guitars? of course, the really cheap acoustics out there might do this regularly. i don't know.
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