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honey locust tone
Hi everyone,
I dont post often, kinda read a bit and play a lot, but was hoping to hear from locust guitar owners as to what tone, sound etc...to expect. i am working on a custom build and really like the look of the honey locust, I would post pics, but cant' seem to upload?? Does anyone have a locust back/side guitar in a slope shoulder dread rather smallerish in 24 and 9 scale, maybe a sound clip or opinion? Thanks first!!-K |
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If you have a choice between honey locust and black locust go with the black. Black Locust is much harder, lower dampening and has a better overall tap tone. Similar in sound to Osage Orange which is about the closest "domestic" wood that we have to BRW in terms of mechanical properties and tone.
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Did you discover anything else about honeylocust? Not that it has really anything to do with the substance of your question about tone, I found this in the Manual of Guitar Technology: “The medullary ray cells . . . are not equally well defined in different kinds of woods. In the places where they distinctly stand out in the sections cut in quarter they give the surface a peculiar mirror-like luster, so that the term ‘mirror-cut’ could be applied. Especially beautiful mirror-like lustre can be seen on pieces of quarter-sawn cherry, common beech, elm, honeylocust, laburnum, mahogany, oak ("silver-grain oak"), plane, plum, and sycamore." Also FWIW, a Professor Gene Wengert, a forum technical advisor at WOODWEB, commented: "It is indeed a wonderful wood with great grain, etc. The strong red color will fade with time, a bit. Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) is not related to black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia). For that reason, perhaps, the official lumber name is spelled as one word." Best, Bill |