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Old 07-04-2012, 09:54 AM
Fichtezc Fichtezc is offline
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Default Quality of Walnut as a Tonewood?

I've been pretty seriously looking into a Lowden as my next guitar as some of you know. I've pretty much narrowed it down to Lowden and maybe two other brands.

ANYWAY, onto the real question. When I have come across various luthier's sites I've found walnut to be common on their "lower" models and not their higher ones. Is walnut in any way of a lower quality than say, rosewood or mahogany? There's a moderately significant upcharge to go from the 23 (walnut ) to the 25 (rosewood).

I've always been a cedar/rosewood kinda guy but I've been told it can get muddy in the F25 so I'm considering the 23 and keeping cedar or the 32 and keeping rosewood.
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