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Sounds like you are overdue for a visit. I really liked the aesthetics that John came up with for my West Coast and I think the style suits the redwood / cocobolo combination. Your style from what I saw at the show has similarities of letting the wood speak more than the bling. I think it would also suit that combo well. Look forward to seeing what you come up with! |
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This is a pretty perky song played with my Zephyr and I believe the guitar sounds fairly balanced but let your ears be the judge (please excuse the sloppy breathing, off day for breath control).
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Just a different way of counting to ten, in order to recalibrate my system
-joel
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I totally geek-out over unique and beautiful specimens of wood…and aside from the primary goal of striving to create beautiful-sounding guitars…my main goal, as a visual artist, is to allow the beauty of these woods to speak for themselves. I want to display the intricacies of my artistry…but without distracting from the beauty that God has created within the woods, which I am privileged to use. -joel
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Hey Haasome, I'm also toying with the idea of ordering a Cocobolo SC OMG. I'm curious about yours. Do you think the Cocobolo moved the tone knob away from what you'd get with EIR? Guessing you played an EIR version before ordering yours... Did you get advanced X-bracing or deep-body, or any other structural option, and what flavor of top wood? I also want a big fat reverby rich powerful instrument. Sorry if I'm derailing the thread. /jd
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As an aside, I’ve just received a Custom SCGC H13 with similar results. I’ve owned another off the-shelf H13, which just missed on the tone I hoped for so the focus of this custom H13 order was on tone. They listen to what you ask for. Big win — twice! |
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More to come this fall! Thanks again! Fred By the way....just finished going through your beautiful web site and learning more about your instruments.....elegant! Now, back to BIG to hear more from the weekend gathering. All the best!
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Cocobolo and all the ways it is amazing
From my experience hearing Cocobolo, it has a few amazing properties that make it possible to experience very different sounds with a different top:
If one is after the dynamic power and frequency response, going with a top that doesn't maximize overtones makes sense, such as Sitka or Adi; While if wanting to highlight the overtone potential, choosing a top to suit, such as any European spruce top, Redwood, or Cedar seems like they would fit the bill best. This is a statement based on hearing two guitars personally, so not very many. Those who have heard stronger overtone content from Sitka or Adi, please feel free to add to this. -a.h. |
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Joel, the first Cocobolo guitar I played that I really liked was yours at BIG 1. I enjoyed the Kinnaird guitar at BIG 2. I agree that, visually, a redwood-topped, Coco guitar could make for a dark overall look but it worked very nicely on John’s guitar. Cedar would pair beautifully, but I really think if you found a lighter colored redwood, it would be gorgeous. And if it were a larger guitar with all those bevels…I’m starting to drool. Wonder what Sam would say to twin guitars, with hers being the size she likes. This could be financially dangerous for me, my friend.
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Watch out though…I sorted through two dozen sets of Tunnel-14 a few days ago, and picked one out to pair with the Cocobolo back & sides…even before I read what you had to say here about twin guitars… So…..do you want a cutaway? -joel
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Hi Joel, be assured I am a total fan of cocobolo—the great “alto” voice, super richness, glassy overtones. BUT: one I thing I noticed in demo-ing two Circa 00s, one in coco and one in mahogany, is how much slower the coco was to respond than the mahogany. I guess that’s not a surprise, given the density of coco, and it probably isn’t something I would even have noticed twenty years ago. I sat there hypnotized by the coco sound, but the mahogany was quicker and more immediate, both in the clarity of the tonal envelope and the speed of response. For quick or predominantly rhythmic playing, the mahogany was hands down—maybe the reason D-18s are a standard for bluegrass flat-picking. But the coco was mesmerizing. —R.
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