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.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:25 pm
by J0K1
finboy wrote:Strange they didn't mention the rosewood jag that is at fretted Americana
NickS wrote:So it's a plywood guitar? 3-ply rosewood & maple.
I suppose you consider Alembics to be plywood too.
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:04 pm
by J0K1
BearBoy wrote:[youtube][/youtube]
Thanks!
That's heavy...
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:41 pm
by NickS
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
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:32 pm
by dezb1
Aren't Gibson 355's ply and they're not bad guitars.
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:35 pm
by sunshiner
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).
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:11 pm
by dezb1
Interesting, so does common wisdom state that having the grain run in the same direction help teh tonez...
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:21 pm
by sunshiner
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.
