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View Poll Results: Yur preferred back and sides for fingerstyle | |||
Mahogany | 33 | 28.21% | |
Rosewood | 43 | 36.75% | |
Maple | 5 | 4.27% | |
Koa | 2 | 1.71% | |
Other wood | 9 | 7.69% | |
Doesn't matter | 25 | 21.37% | |
I don't play fingertsyle | 0 | 0% | |
Voters: 117. You may not vote on this poll |
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Preferred back and sides for fingerstyle?
Sure it's personal preference...but what's yours, and why? Feel free to tell us about your preference on top-wood to go with that B&S.
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I like Rosewood for lyrical fingerstyle but Mahogany for bluesy/folksy stuff. That's why I have both.
I like cedar and mahogany for my tops these days. |
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My Taylor 320, Mahogany top Sapele back and sides. Very responsive to a light touch fingerstyle with no pick or nails.
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My Lowden has Sinker Redwood over African Blackwood and that's a wonderful combination, but for a poll like this I think that's a little too hard to come by.
I've heard so many wonderful combinations. Michael Watts has shared some maple guitars that were to die for. I played a wonderful Koa Martin Authentic that just sang. I've heard some sweet Mahogany guitars with great sustain. I think the builder is a lot more important than the wood, but as a general rule spruce over rosewood just works, and it still works when you want to go with a flat pick.
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Preferred back and sides for fingerstyle?
I fingerpick all my guitars using my nails as picks. While I enjoy the differences in woods and builds, a spruce over rosewood guitar is what I prefer. Four of my solid wood guitars are spruce topped rosewood. But it's nice to have mahogany, walnut, and sapele for variety. The two laminates are maple, each with a solid spruce top. Don .
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*The Heard: 85 Gibson J-200 sitka/rosewood Jumbo 99 Taylor 355 sitka/sapele 12 string Jmbo 06 Alvarez AJ60S englmn/mpl lam med Jmbo 14 Taylor 818e sitka/rosewood Grand Orchestra 05 Taylor 512ce L10 all mahogany Grand Concert 09 Taylor all walnut Jmbo 16 Taylor 412e-R sitka/rw GC 16 Taylor 458e-R s/rw 12 string GO 21 Epiphone IBG J-200 sitka/maple Jmbo 22 Guild F-1512 s/rw 12 string Jmbo |
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Walnut/spruce is great for finger style. |
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I really believe back and sides materials of a guitar have nothing to do with the style used to play.
Guitar neck and body size and shape do, together with how the whole guitar has been built with (I believe) the least importance given to types of woods used for back and sides.
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I play solo fingerstyle and classical guitar. I have guitars with b&s woods of Indian rosewood (2x), Madagascar rosewood, Honduran mahogany (2x), Koa, Oregon Big Leaf maple and Tasmanian Blackwood.
I enjoy them all and do not prefer one over the other generally, although I prefer some for certain musical sub-genres. Last edited by sdelsolray; 09-21-2020 at 05:36 PM. |
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Preferred back and sides for fingerstyle?
I like Mahogany or Sapele for it’s clarity and balance..but I also like Rosewood for it’s resonance and overtones..
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I voted for rosewood cause I have them and I prefer them as well. I had some mahogany and they're good too. It's less sparkling but the sound is very clear and direct
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Any of them can sound good. I like my Osage Orange parlor
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#12
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Whatever has the cleanest voice. Maple is suited best to my ears. Getting a good one is a bit of a crap shoot, whereas mahogany seems always to sound good or is usable most times no matter what guitar (almost).
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I voted for rosewood but recently I notice KOA is also a good choice!
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I like both.
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As long as it sounds good I don`t really care.
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