Your opinion of spruce top classicals

[GuitarVlog]

Originally Posted by dwalton

I see a lot of German, European, and Engelmann spruce on nice classicals. Never seen Adirondack. Not sure if I've ever seen sitka but it's probably used.

What he said. Adirondack is hard to come by but I have heard of it used on a classical.

Yamaha uses sitka on its lowest-end classicals ($300 below I think), European on its midrange, and Hokkaido spruce on its top of the line. Hokkaido spruce is supposedly even harder to get than Adirondack since there are harvesting limits.

[lw216316]

thank you so much for the responses thus far

This has really sparked my interest in a spruce top.
I'm going to look for some to try out.

- Larry

[Kabalan]

Originally Posted by GuitarVlog

What he said. Adirondack is hard to come by but I have heard of it used on a classical.

Yamaha uses sitka on its lowest-end classicals ($300 below I think), European on its midrange, and Hokkaido spruce on its top of the line. Hokkaido spruce is supposedly even harder to get than Adirondack since there are harvesting limits.

thanks for the info. i been asking about adi in the forum, since couple of months, first time i get the answer.
i like and use cedar in my classical and steel string guitar.
but i have a classical too with german spruce and maple, has a nice sound with clean
overtones.
eblen