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Bravo Mark! I sense a pair of unique and lovely guitars! Thanks!
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Maybe this is what Craig is thinking of? It's awesome by the way!
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First Dryad Strung Up
I have my first spec model Dryad Dreadnought strung up today. My initial impressions are I got the bass as I wanted and it is a comfortable guitar to sit and play, especially with the arm bevel.
I have an initial hard Maple dummy saddle on it for the break in period so I won't really hear some of the highs until the bone saddle is in and the guitar is fully intonated. I am certainly excited about what I have so far though! The guitar is big and sounds big. The bass is clean, clear and crisp. The mids are strong and the trebles sound very promising so far. I will get some sound samples up in time. This is my newest model so I will be using these photos to update my website. As you can see this has a Florentine cut away and an arm bevel. It is a pretty strait forward guitar without a lot of bling. Well not until you start looking a little closer: The headstock overlay is Dessert Ironwood Burl. The back strap is Amazon Rosewood like the back and sides: You can see I have a standard set of Scheller tuners. These have Black Ebony buttons. I say a standard set because Scheller these would be included in my base price. Scheller has a huge menu of choices some of which would carry an upcharge. These tuners are a big quality upgrade over the Gotohs and Schaller tuners I used to use. More to come! M
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The back and sides are Amazon Rosewood. It is very rare to find Amazon Rosewood of this quality and size. It was always rare to find Amazon Rosewood like this because Amazon Rosewood trees seldomly get large enough to produce a straight grained perfectly quartered dreadnought back.
This is the the kind of wood that when an experienced luthier is lucky enough to see it he/she buys it, all of it. I came across six sets of this and you know what? I bought six sets. It was from a retiring luthier who found (probably a much larger) hoard back in the 70s at H.L. Wild Luthier Supply in NYC. Amazon Rosewood is similar in weight to Cocobolo and African Blackwood. Tonally it lands between the two of them. I wouldn't say it is a direct replacement for BRW. It doesn't look like BRW. It doesn't smell like BRW. It doesn't float in water like BRW. Landing between Cocobolo and African Blackwood is nothing to apologize for. Matched with the right top, bracing, guitar size/profile it is awesome tonewood! And if the Amazon Rosewood has been cared for in luthier stashes for almost 50 years, so much the better.
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Guitar Top
Thanks Craig!
I matched the Amazon Rosewood with a torrified Sitka Spruce top: It is a great tonal pairing with the Amazon Rosewood when it is on a large guitar. With the top and back properly voiced to work together I get the sustain from the Amazon and the quick response and clarity from the torrified Sitka. Plus, I like the gold color of the torrified Spruce: It looks good with the sparkling gold of the Dessert Ironwood fretboard: You can see from the pictures above that the frets are gold Evo. The bridge is Black Ebony and the bound rosette is Red Agate stone. As an aside, I often read discussion about how much a guitar's back affects the sound of the guitar. Folks usually say somewhere between 80 and 95 percent of the sound comes from the top. Here's a little experiment you can try at home. Hold the guitar by the neck and tap the top a little behind the bridge and listen how loud and how long the guitar that tap sounds. Now lay the guitar down on something soft like a thick rug or blanket and tap it again. What do you think maybe half as loud? The sustain turns to thump? Now I am going to tell you something else that you probably shouldn't try at home. When the sides are in the body profile mold and the top is glued on you can tap the top and easily read the note you get. When you do the same thing with only the back attached you can read the note you are getting from there. Usually, you want the two notes to be 3 of 5 half steps apart with the back at the high end. This helps avoid wolf notes or dead notes So that would be part of why you would want to voice the back to help keep this separation. Now when you put the body together and you read the tap pitch suddenly they are both tapping at about the same pitch. Why would this be? It is because the top and the back are coupled. What one does affects the other in many ways. This coupling is caused by few things: there is some vibration traveling through the sides that they are both glued to. The sound from the top is reflected off the inside back which has some effect. The strongest coupling though is the air inside the guitar. The changing air pressure inside the guitar is mostly what makes the top and back sync up. So what I think we should be drawing from these two observations is the sound coming off the top maybe 85% of the sound you hear but every aspect of that sound coming off that top is heavily affected by the top's coupling with the back. So in effect you are hearing the back through the top. Sometimes you hear that the tops are the meat and the back is the seasoning. So if you are from New Hampshire that means the back has very little influence but if your paying attention to how the back is voiced you can start getting your seasoning from? Let's say India or Mexico! m
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..I love this ... both the guitar, the woods used, as well as the story and metaphores.. resonates with me (pun intended) :-)
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One of the upgrades I went with on my Green Mountains Series is the guitars come with a Visesnut flight case. These are very strong, lightweight and not bulky. They are protective and comfortable to travel with: The Active series are included in the base price. A variety of optional upgrades are available as well. Mark
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I am getting to the final stages of the French polishing I am doing on the Walnut and Maple pair of Dryad dreds. After letting these dry for a couple days I'll do the final leveling and coats.
In the meantime I can work on the next steps like tuners, fret installs etc. The Walnut Dryad is more traditional in voicing and design and the Maple is more contemporary fingerstyle. They are both getting EVO gold frets. The Walnut has black tuners with buffalo horn buttons. The Maple has gold tuners with Macassar Ebony buttons. m
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That is just so beautiful Mark very well done and what I call understated elegance . My kind of guitar (would go pretty well with my Josie ) I give this one 4
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Beautiful, Mark! Looking forward to the recordings.
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