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Originally Posted by awchiu
Hi Bruce,
Good to see you back in the forum. My condolences on the passing of your friend.
I've always liked the look of Myrtle but have never played one to hear its tone. How would it differ from say Mahogany? I know it's difficult to explain tones in words, but would like to hear your opinion anyway.
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I am not an expert on Myrtle tone, having built just 2 guitars with it. As it happened, both guitars seemed unusual in the same way, so there may be a pattern. The commonality was that the nature of the tone seemed exactly right. Neither something missing nor too much of anything. With careful comparison to everything I have on hand, no guitar I had seemed as perfectly centered tonally as the recent Myrtle CN#3, and those who have been following KNOW what Bob and I think of his year old Myrtle FT-000-C. So I am taking a chance on an all Myrtle, and then I'll make something for Carlos, possibly from Myrtle.
Here are the closely related plates for CN#4:
