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Old 11-11-2019, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by TomB'sox View Post
I would tend to disagree with the premise that maple guitars are rare though?
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No kiddin' - so many Gibson instruments just happened to be made of maple -- including the mandolins, jazz guitars that defined their species, along with some lesser items such as J-200, J-185.

Interesting, though, that for those who would replicate the best of the old Gibsons look for Michigan maple, which grows near, er, Kalamazoo.

Violin makers look toward Cremona spend a fair amount of time working with Italian Alpine spruce and Italian maple.



What a coincidence. . .
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