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Old 05-07-2010, 12:19 PM
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Great info, no wonder my all nato Yamaha has a hispanic accent.
do you feel an unusual desire to wear a blue beret when playing this guitar?
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Old 05-07-2010, 12:41 PM
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I'm glad I ran across this thread. A wealth of info here and I learned a lot of wood types and such.

I always thought NATO wood was a wood that the North American Treaty Organization made.
If you put "nato" into a wikipedia search you get North Atlantic Treaty Organization. You have to put "nato wood".
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Old 05-07-2010, 01:49 PM
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What is everyone overall opinion of Nato as a tone wood? I've never played a Nato constructed guitar I thought sounded good.
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Old 05-07-2010, 01:52 PM
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I'm glad I ran across this thread. A wealth of info here and I learned a lot of wood types and such.

I always thought NATO wood was a wood that the North American Treaty Organization made.
lol

I thought NATO was an alphabet soup designation for laminate wood made from HOG.
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Old 05-07-2010, 01:53 PM
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"I've never played a Nato constructed guitar I thought sounded good."

Very likely, they all had laminated backs and sides.
And not unlikely, they had laminated tops, too.





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Old 05-07-2010, 05:33 PM
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Nato is an acronym for "Not A Tree Originally."
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Old 05-07-2010, 06:36 PM
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Nato is an acronym for "Not A Tree Originally."
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Old 05-07-2010, 07:18 PM
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Nato is an acronym for "Not A Tree Originally."
Beat me to it - but I always said Not a Tree Ordinarily.
Not a great tonewood; not a mahogany either. Though on occasion I have seen some flamed laminates that looked interesting.
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Old 05-07-2010, 07:37 PM
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That's funny because too me it doesn't FEEL like wood. More like plastic.
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Old 05-07-2010, 08:15 PM
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I always thought NATO wood was a wood that the North American Treaty Organization made.
Aw, shucks, that's what I wanted to say.
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Old 05-08-2010, 04:21 AM
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Not a great tonewood
The thing is, we could only judge that (still subjectively) if there were many all-solid, quality acoustic guitars around with nato back and sides.

You could reason that if it was a good tonewood they would use it for such instruments, but that's not exactly how it works.




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