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Originally Posted by TomB'sox
What a cool start. I love it when guitars have a personal meaning like this one has for you.
I am not familiar with Manchinga, this looks spalted as well right? What is it comparable to?
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Thanks, Tom--this will be a special guitar for me.
It is indeed spalted--apparently Machinga is one of the few spalted woods that is strong enough to bend sides from. Mike has built quite a few guitars with it, and Jason Kostal built an MDW with Machinga a couple of years back. Tonally it's compared to top-quality rosewoods with quite a few overtones.
I believe the blue spruce will really make it sing!