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My Lowden is spruce/mahogany and I love it, but my friend has a McIlroy cedar/walnut which sounds amazing.
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Cedar over walnut gives you the best of cedar over mahogany and rosewood! It is a very sweet and unique combination. The tone will be very woody and warm with sweet mids, full bass, and round trebles. Its my all time favorite wood combination in a GA/SJ body size.
Cedar over cherry is also nice, but not as nice as walnut. If you like cedar over mahogany and rosewood, you will love walnut.
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Sinker Redwood and EIR is a great combo too, that's what I have on my Taylor BTO.
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Hmmmm.......
So far I have the cedar with koa and sinker redwood with Cocobolo. I heard on u tube the walnut but not with the cedar and cherry! hmmmmm that is real interesting! |
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My BTO has Sinker and Macassar Ebony. It can be heard here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d23htMWEne8 Please don't pay attention to all of my extra movement, lol, just listen to the sound of the guitar. Standard tuning, and as you'll see, capo on the third string. I'm having a guitar built with Carpathian and Malaysian Blackwood. Any guitars I've heard with Malaysian Blackwood have been stunning, but that is a much more rare wood choice.
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How about maple and walnut on the back and sides? An I pretty much looking at some kind of spruce for the top unless I want to spend thousands? What about a laminate? And what about something like the Taylor GS Mini with maple or black wood laminate? Can you really experience the maple in laminate for any? Even if on a Taylor?
I'm intrigued by the idea of maple or walnut back and sides. What would be a good size for that?
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I like spruce over rosewood, spruce over mahogany, cedar over rosewood, and cedar over mahogany. I have examples of guitars in each of these woods. I like them all. If I had to pick one, I suppose I would choose spruce over rosewood, because I love that combination of bass depth and upper end sparkle. But I no sooner pick up another guitar and then I rethink this...
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I have been told that the wood combination on the back/sides of the GS Mini don't really matter in terms of sound because it is only the outer layer that has that particular wood. You're buying it for the aesthetics. Others who own them may offer a different view. I would have to imagine in a laminate guitar, the tonal difference has more to do with just being a different guitar, not because of that particular wood, if that makes sense.
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I don't mind at all, but it's a bit of a story. Selling it because I'm primarily a strummer, and while this guitar sounds beautiful when strummed, I started playing with a group of adults, we'll loosely call a band, and I find the maple GS is a much better fit for what and how I play. The maple guitar has a power and brightness that really is heard in a band, while the BTO, in spite of (or because of?) how rich and lush it sounds, seemed to get lost in that setting. So the maple guitar was getting all the play time. Still, I missed the richness, and especially miss the arm bevel, even more since the GS is a little larger than the BTO. I started doing some research, met Joel Stehr, and decided to commission a guitar that would meet all the requirements, giving me what might best be described as a mixture of the maple GS and the BTO in a dread size with both arm and rib bevel. We decided on the Carpathian/Malaysian Blackwood combo. To get all of that, I have to sell the Sinker/Macassar guitar. I guess in short, it is a gorgeous guitar, but doesn't quite match my style of play, which is too bad because it is incredibly comfortable to play and does sound lush, rich and gorgeous. Hope that makes sense.
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