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Originally Posted by TomB'sox
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. . .