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Originally Posted by zmf
Neck joints. The reoccurring topic. I trying to recall attempts to settle this question. I'm sure it's been posted, but I'm coming up blank at the moment.
Suppose someone decided to build two D-18's, as identical as possible (which is a big caveat), but one with a traditional dovetail joint and another with a simple dovetail. Wonder what the tonal difference would be.
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My guess is that there would no real difference in the two. At least, no bigger difference than you normally get between two guitars. Even in the dovetail guitars, the joint isn’t always that great. The CNC cut simple dovetail is likely just as strong and efficient at transmitting vibrations. The 15 series is good proof of this. The difference in the traditional dovetail guitars in the current Martin lineup is that the build materials are likely better (genuine mahogany), so they turn out to be better thought of guitars.
My opinion...
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