"Surfer girl is only an infatuation, The rosewood's a keeper!"
I think that about sums it up, but it doesn't make it any easier to resist a quick fling
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| Author: | tjp [ Sun May 04, 2014 11:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides... |
After several commissions, I'm gonna build one for me, dangit. I tend to play stuff like Townes, Neil Young, some Robert Earl King, Steve Earle, etc. have some beautiful Koa, with a small check that I can hide or handle. I also have some really nice, chocolatey, straight grained quartersawn Guatemalan Rosewood 4-piece backs. I'm stuck. The Koa is so intriguing, so pretty, it taps "doiiingggg", while hog taps "donk!" and the Guatemalan taps "piiinggg!". The Guatemalan is pretty like a beautiful, unpretentious farm girl with her hair in a ponytail. The Koa is the surfer girl in a bikini... I've been seduced by both and now I have to decide. Help me. Or at least help me help myself. |
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| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Sun May 04, 2014 11:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
I'd use the Rosewood and save the Koa for a commission, especially if you're making a strummy dread tuned to DADGAD |
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| Author: | tjp [ Sun May 04, 2014 11:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
It'll be a strummy OMish 24.9 scale sorta thing...That is decidedly good advice though. Flash does sell. |
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| Author: | tjp [ Sun May 04, 2014 11:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
Maybe, just maybe, build one and hang onto it while I build the other, then keep the one that talks dirty to me? |
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| Author: | DennisK [ Sun May 04, 2014 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
Rosewood back and sides, koa top. |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Mon May 05, 2014 7:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
Build both of them and keep both of them. And don't show buyers the one you like best. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Mon May 05, 2014 8:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
Nice, chocolatey, straight grained quartersawn Guatemalan Rosewood. Go for it. Surfer girl is only an infatuation, The rosewood's a keeper! |
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| Author: | tjp [ Mon May 05, 2014 3:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
"Surfer girl is only an infatuation, The rosewood's a keeper!" I think that about sums it up, but it doesn't make it any easier to resist a quick fling
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| Author: | powdrell [ Mon May 05, 2014 9:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
Maybe it's time to build 'two for me'.....both great woods....what soundboards? redwood, spruce? Koa/spruce has worked well for me lately... |
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| Author: | tjp [ Mon May 05, 2014 11:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
Hi Doug! I have three really nice adi tops plus bracewood from Old Standard. I also have a bunch of Sitka, I bought 12 tops (look for that deal on their site. Seriously) from Alaska specialty woods last year that are imperfect in one way or another, mostly a knot or something out of the pattern. I've never held perfection in high regard. Turns out 3 of those tops are the best I've ever held in my hands. They are stiff as can be and ring like a bell, could tell the minute I touched them. It was really fun turning that purchase into 3 distinct stacks of perceived quality. Anyhow, I'll use one of the two, probably the Adi since I've never built with it. There is also a really cool curly RW billet in the garage that I snagged from a salvage pile at Almquist. That place has been good to me that last few months. Or maybe I've been good to them.... Maybe someday I'll make a flamed Maple/curly Redwood, all bling, all the time guitar, just for fun. The Koa isn't going to work for a top, it has a small cross-grain check/fracture that I'll need to cleat. I did have designs on an all-koa at first though. |
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| Author: | Leftyprs [ Tue May 06, 2014 12:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
No question... Adi/Guatemalan RW (tucurensis) |
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| Author: | Quine [ Tue May 06, 2014 12:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time to build one for me! Help me with back and sides.. |
I'd go for the koa. I love the look and tone. But the idea of building both and keeping the best one sounds wise to me....maybe you'll end up keeping both |
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| Author: | Joe Beaver [ Wed May 07, 2014 5:21 pm ] |
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There are no losers here. Pick the wood that will make you the happiest. If it was me I'd go with something like this .....if I could |
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