Conan plays George's Rosewood Tele

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:26 am

A jag would also be too heavy. I'd be curious how much a rosewood Mustang or Swinger/Musiclander would weight, it would probably be more manageable. A flying v might also be interesting.

J0K1 · Post by **J0K1** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:25 pm

finboy wrote:Strange they didn't mention the rosewood jag that is at fretted Americana

Link? Can't find it

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:35 pm

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westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:45 pm

Nice!

here is a cool article about Georges guitars

http://tilonlysilenceremains.com/the-be ... s-guitars/

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:00 am

So it's a plywood guitar? 3-ply rosewood & maple.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:24 am

71Smallbox wrote:
YuriK wrote:Why all the george h8?
Eric likes to troll.

Naw, I'm always serious about the Beatles.

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:27 am

NickS wrote:So it's a plywood guitar? 3-ply rosewood & maple.

I suppose you consider Alembics to be plywood too.

J0K1 · Post by **J0K1** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:04 pm

BearBoy wrote:[youtube][/youtube]

Thanks!

That's heavy...

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:41 pm

Fakir Mustache wrote:
NickS wrote:So it's a plywood guitar? 3-ply rosewood & maple.
I suppose you consider Alembics to be plywood too.

No, because plywood is made from overlapping lamina or "plies" (as are tyres) and Alembics, if I remember correctly, are made using butt-jointed stringers, more like the core-plus-wings approach used in many other guitars

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:32 pm

Aren't Gibson 355's ply and they're not bad guitars.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:35 pm

I've read somewhere that you can call laminated pieces of wood as plywood only if each layer has perpendicular direction of wood grains to the previous layer, if grains are oriented to the same direction it is laminated wood. As far as I know for the bodies of budget acoustic guitars and top class archtops (Gibson ES335 for example) they use laminated wood not plywood. As well as for the necks of some Martin guitars (Gibson SG Zoot Suit).

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:11 pm

Interesting, so does common wisdom state that having the grain run in the same direction help teh tonez...

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:21 pm

dezb1 wrote:Interesting, so does common wisdom state that having the grain run in the same direction help teh tonez...

It think it helps in acoustic instruments, the wood I guess acoustically resonates better that way. For electric's I believe nope.