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Old 03-14-2019, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by printer2 View Post
I picked through a pallet of reject tops and came away with roughly 30 tops with 'visually interesting' grain patterns and color. They are well quartered and ring nicely. I expect them to sound good. Mind you I feel almost any piece of wood can give a good showing for itself if the builder gives it what it needs.

I had some walnut that I was practicing resawing and I set it aside as it was flat sawn and of little use other than as purfling or using for double sides. At the time we had a discussion on what an all walnut guitar would sound like and I thought why not build with this stuff and see? It turned out to be a wonderful sounding guitar that changed what people at work thought I could do (we have a large contingent of guitar players in our division).

That is a beautiful guitar; found this thread by searching for "imperfect perfect" as I have an Ibanez AE305 that I call a slutty guitar; she has imperfections that make her a perfectly singing guitar. easy to play, rings and roars. I love her.
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