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04-02-2015, 11:47 AM
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12-string baritone -wood?
I have built an 8-sting one last year as my first built and used rosewood for back and sides, spruce for the top.
Now IŽm planning to build a 12-string baritone acoustic guitar. What kind of wood would you prefer to support the deeper sound of the 27" scale, hog or EIR ? For the top I thought of spruce but cedar is swirling a bit in the back of my head,too.
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Thanks!  Martin D28 (1973) 12-string cutaway ...finished ;-) Hoyer 12-string (1965) Yamaha FG-340 (1970) Yamaha FG-512 (ca. 1980) D.Maurer 8-string baritone (2013-2014) and 4 electric axes 
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04-03-2015, 02:49 AM
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Padauk for the back
David Berkowitz made a bari 12 string with Lutz and Padauk that looked and sounded great Pics http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...d.php?t=332599 Vids http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...d.php?t=311333 I really Padauk for baritones, EIR can get on the too dark and muddy side for baris. I myself would prefer a spruce soundboard to cedar. I'm not the biggest fan of cedar for 12 strings, they can lose a bit clarity and definition of their spruce counterparts for the octave strings.
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04-03-2015, 03:57 AM
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Thanks for your helping reply, especially both links!
As for a cedar top, IŽll leave that version and stay with one of the spruce variations. Padauk is very interesting. I will have a serious look at it.
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Thanks! Martin D28 (1973) 12-string cutaway ...finished ;-) Hoyer 12-string (1965) Yamaha FG-340 (1970) Yamaha FG-512 (ca. 1980) D.Maurer 8-string baritone (2013-2014) and 4 electric axes
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04-03-2015, 04:36 AM
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My pleasure.
I really like Padauk, I have a guitar with it coming to me in the next few months. It's a good tonewood, I'd say it's on the brighter side of things which is why it works really well for Baritone guitars. It's reasonably cheap as well (more so than EIR and Mahogany) http://shop.espen.de/Tonewood-Acoust...duct-1178.html http://www.madinter.com/wood/backs-a...adouk-set.html What kind of spruce are you looking at? In Europe it's commonality makes it a bit boring in some ways, but I ABSOLUTELY love German/European Spruce.
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04-03-2015, 05:10 AM
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Thanks for the two hints!
I just was looking at the woods Espen sells. They have got a broad variety at decent prices. Into Madinter I stumbled a couple of years ago but had forgotten about them. So thanks again for freshing up my memory! I am still thinking about what wood I should take for the top. The difference between those spruces make a choice difficult to do.  After a broad research here in the forum I guess IŽll take rosewood for b&s and sitka for the top...
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Thanks! Martin D28 (1973) 12-string cutaway ...finished ;-) Hoyer 12-string (1965) Yamaha FG-340 (1970) Yamaha FG-512 (ca. 1980) D.Maurer 8-string baritone (2013-2014) and 4 electric axes Last edited by viento; 04-06-2015 at 02:07 AM.
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