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01-29-2022, 02:42 PM
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Also, there are many species of maple used in lutherie, and Eastern sugar maple approaches twice the weight of Western Big Leaf (my favorite domestic maple), with typical European "maple" (a sycamore, they say) being somewhere in between.
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