I'd be interested to try this one. My feelings about wenge have varied quite a lot. i had the opportunity, recently, to play some more guitars made with it by makers I regard highly, and, as a result, I'm not too keen.
In one case, I had the opportunity to play a wenge guitar alongside similar models with BRW, Mad rose and Malaysian blackwood back and sides. The wenge one was the one I liked least. Interestingly, the BRW one was way ahead of the wenge and Mad rose ones, but I thought that the Malaysian blackwood one had the edge. Of course, this is just a personal response and reflects my own "taste" in tone, but it was an interesting and useful experience, to be able to spend quite a bit of time comparing very similar guitars by the same maker, which differed in the back and sides wood.
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Richard
Baranik, Bourgeois, Brook, Collings, Fischer, Fylde, Kinnaird, Lowden, Martin, Oddy, Taylor
For sale:
Bourgeois JOM custom - Adirondack/koa
Brook OM custom (maybe!) - Bubinga/Sitka
Lowden F 25th anniversary model - European/Brazilian
David Oddy J - Englemann/Brazilian
David Oddy mandocello - European spruce/flame maple
David Oddy A4 mandolin
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