Hi everyone,
this is my first post. I'm a 51 yr. old physician from Germany and I play guitar since I was 9 yrs. old. I'm classically trained but play
modern fingerstyle stuff mostly.
Last year I got my first built-to-order guitar from a
local luthier. It is a 12-fret 00 cutaway made entirely from mahogany (well, it's got the ebony fretboard, bridge and headplate). Looks like this:
I'm already contemplating my next luthier-built guitar. It's ging to be a 00 14 fret with a German spruce top. I'd like it to have flame maple back, sides and neck. I'm thinking violin stain on the body, tortoise or koa binding, black ebony fretboard, bridge and headplate.
The
guy I spoke to last week who I'd chosen for this task said it would be his first maple neck acoustic.
The choice of flame maple is a purely aesthetic one. Is there anything radically different build-wise when you use maple instead of mahogany for a neck? I'm not yet sure whether to use a laminate (maple/ebony) for strength.