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I've mentioned Swiss aka Alpine Spruce... but I'dont know about the moon, when it was cut...
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Visually, a nicely figured bearclaw Sitka spruce tops my list. I also like the creamy color of Euro spruce.
But tonally, I have yet to find another guitar that would beat the plain old AAA Sitka on my Goodall. The Carpathian spruce my SCGC OM is a very close second. |
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My favorite spruce is the kind that grows on trees.
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Sitka for me.
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Less flippantly, my favorite spruce is the piece my favorite builder picked for my favorite guitar.
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"Select Spruce"
I have one guitar with an adi top. It is a Collings DS1a (12 fret dread Adi/hog) It is wonderful.
All my other Collings (three EIR and one more hog) all have sitka tops. They are wonderful. I have a Santa Cruz sitka /hog. It is wonderful. I have a Czech made mando with Euro spruce. It is wonderful. My point? 1. I think that adi is just red. It doesn't matter if it comes from the Adirondacks or not. 2. I think red (old growth) is good stuff and takes a longer time to mature tonally. 3. I think that Sitka is a fine tone wood and undervalued/underestimated because it is plentiful (and not what Martin/Gibson used in the pre-war years). 4. European spruce (German, Swiss, Italian, Scandinavian, Russian, is all Picea Abies. It is "European spruce" and if its good , it's good. It is very plentiful. Like every other kind of spruce there are better bits than others. There is a phrase that I've seen on many gruitar brand websites that makes me laugh - "Select Spruce" (that I think, means the bit on the top of the pile).
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I've posted this sentiment many times as well. While there are nuances inherent in species, I've played too many guitars that dispelled "myths" of what a particular wood is supposed to sound like to believe otherwise.
I would refine the idea though, to "it's the builder with that particular piece of wood". |
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Banner...Oh, wait, that's my favorite Bruce. Never mind.
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This may sound like a cop-out, but I like them all, based on the character and properties, and certainly the aesthetic appeal, of every specimen. Each set of wood must be judged on its own merits, so I don't generalize...
That said, in early 2016, I bought ten sequential sets of bearclaw Sitka from Brent Cole (http://alaskawoods.com/) that are out of this world! They were recycled from a float log at an Alaskan logging camp, from a tree that was harvested in the early 80s. Check this out:
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