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Old 01-01-2023, 08:21 PM
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Welcome to the forum.

The concern with flatsawn rosewood sets such as the ones that you are sharing is not that they will not make a beautiful guitar nor a fine sounding instrument, it is their physical stability.

Dense, stiff, glassy flatsawn woods tend to more readily crack due to this when exposed to environmental swings. This why luthiers prefer to use quartersawn timbers in instrument building, particularly when the woods have a high differential. Take a look at the difference between the radial and tangential shrinkage percentages (one is 2.5x the other) to get a sense of the asymmetric shrinkage.

https://www.wood-database.com/burmese-rosewood/

I know that you are excited about your new guitar and I am sorry to rain on your excitement, but you asked if you had made the “right choice”.
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