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The top of my Om is covered with fine silking but also there is a nickel-sized imperfection, what looks like a dent in the wood grain underneath the finish but may be a singular instance of bearclaw.
I don’t know about the rating system; how much of the forest has to be cut down to find a perfect top? I think it was Dana Bourgeois who said many excellent tops would be rejected by consumers for their visual, not sonic imperfections. |
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That implies that sawyers just keep cutting down trees until they find one that is "right". It doesn't work that way. Sitka spruce, for example, is used for everything from 2 x 4's to guitar tops.
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Dana Bourgeois is only scratching the surface . There are woods that consumers readily reject simply because they aren't the species that they have been trained to see as acceptable . I once had a respected ( well deserved ) luthier declare that he would never consider black locust for a guitar . They make fence posts out of that stuff . If you go to the right place , I have no doubt that you will see BRW being used as fence posts . There is a huge world out there when you dare to leave the bubble . |
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Many spruce trees do not have have a AAA top in them. Spruce trees that do render a AAA top will almost always have many. The sawyer can make or break such a tree.
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Anybody have a spare $16,000 laying around?
https://reverb.com/item/11715897-tay...r-2000-natural Ed |
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Interesting to me that Taylor’s pallet guitar is apparently becoming collectible. I built a guitar a few years ago from Poplar with a Catalpa top, with a similar goal to the Taylor effort, which was to show that the materials influence pales in comparison to the builders input. What is especially interesting is that I made the guitar in 2013 ( I think) and no one ever bought it despite the price being advantageous and the guitar being very much in the ballpark of my general work. . . Until this week. A buyer has appeared! Coincidence? Or is it the changing times?
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