OK - So I Guess I Love Maple

[Brucebubs]

I bought 3 guitars this year - all of them very different from each other but all of them Maple .... and I love them!

Do I have a problem?



Huss & Dalton MJ Custom
Rickenbacker 4003 Fireglo
Epiphone EJ-200

[Photojeep]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

I bought 3 guitars this year - all of them very different from each other but all of them Maple .... and I love them!

Do I have a problem?



Huss & Dalton MJ Custom
Rickenbacker 4003 Fireglo
Epiphone EJ-200

Nope! I don't see a problem at all...
PJ

[Kerbie]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

Do I have a problem?

Well, if you do, so do all the rest of us!

[Johan Madsen]

I love maple, full sounding single notes, focused, balanced, bunches of headroom, snappy, clear, pure sounding, one of my favorite tonewood

[GuitarDogs62]

It's all about finding the sound that makes you happy and want to play, Congrats on the Maple. They do sound pretty.

[Rev Roy]

What you have there are some FINE guitars, Bruce. What could possibly be the problem?

I've got a couple of maple beauties as well. It's funny -- if you asked me my favorite tonewood, I'd say mahogany, but half of my guitars are maple.

[CycleBob]

Very nice Bruce. I’ve always liked the way maple guitars look and sound but only ever owned 1: a Maton with Queensland maple back and sides, which I don’t have anymore. You’ve convinced me that I need more blondes.

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by CycleBob

Very nice Bruce. I’ve always liked the way maple guitars look and sound but only ever owned 1: a Maton with Queensland maple back and sides, which I don’t have anymore. You’ve convinced me that I need more blondes.

I had Maton make me a 12-string version of their country jumbo with Queensland maple back and sides. Not a custom shop order, just a 12-string version of an existing model... a $600 up charge.
Beautiful fit and finish buy disappointing acoustically.
It sold easily because it looked so nice.

[Blueser100]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

I bought 3 guitars this year - all of them very different from each other but all of them Maple .... and I love them!

Do I have a problem?



Huss & Dalton MJ Custom
Rickenbacker 4003 Fireglo
Epiphone EJ-200

What beautiful guitars! Great shot, too! Many years ago when I started up playing acoustic again, I impulsively bought a maple dread cutaway by Fender. Ultimately it wasn't a great fit for me and I traded it in but it had a lovely brightness to it.

[rokdog49]

My bud Lee's Maple Taylor is awesome.
I wonder what Maple and Engelmann would sound like?

[Muddslide]

Brother, the only "problem" I see is that if the opportunity arises, I'm going to literally steal these beautiful instruments from you.

I'm not a natural thief or dishonest person, but I don't believe I have the moral fiber to resist those.

Bass was my main instrument for many years. I have always longed for a Ric.

And I played that identical model Epiphone a year or so ago in a pawn shop. They were asking $280 for it. I still kick myself for not snagging it even though I'm not a big jumbo/dread guy.

The one I played is now gone, destroyed by Hurricane Michael. I coud have saved it from that fate, but I didn't.

Seriously, those are beautiful, classic, lifetime instruments. I hope you enjoy the heck out of them and bring pleasure to listeners for one hundred years of a very long, happy, music-making life.

[Steadfastly]

You need help. You have become a mapleholic.

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by Steadfastly

You need help. You have become a mapleholic.

I'm in trouble, my wife just found my stash of Canada trip brochures.

[IndyHD28]

Personally, I am thrilled to seeing Maple finally gaining traction in the acoustic market. Screw CITES.