That would in fact be "A" or student grade Englemann appearance wise at least. Higher quality Engleman does not even show grain lines and is a this wonderful Ivory color:
http://www.kennethmichaelguitars.com/kitmanual.html
Dave's 0012 is made with a high level Englemann sound-board -- note the color
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soundboard top
Re: soundboard top
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Re: soundboard top
Well I did place a bid on a couple pieces of red cedar supposedly from British Columbia. The bidding went higher then I would go so I lost the item. But I did what Ken suggested and went to a supplier I had done business with before and purchased some from them. I did buy some nice Bubinga off ebay. I'm happy with what I bought. But I did look the pictures over carefully. I have also bought some Honduran mahogany and African Mahogany. I'm satisfied but the dealer is fairly local so if I had of gotten shafted I would have visited the place.
I've bought some pretty cool stuff off the bay and have been disappointed only once. A bad revue had him begging me to retract it. I purchased a guitar neck and there was three pics but all of the front. None of the back of the neck. I told my wife betcha something is wrong on the back. Sure enough there was a crack. I fixed it. But he told me it wasn't like that when he shipped it. I told him sure that's why there was three photo's of the front and none of the back.
I've bought some pretty cool stuff off the bay and have been disappointed only once. A bad revue had him begging me to retract it. I purchased a guitar neck and there was three pics but all of the front. None of the back of the neck. I told my wife betcha something is wrong on the back. Sure enough there was a crack. I fixed it. But he told me it wasn't like that when he shipped it. I told him sure that's why there was three photo's of the front and none of the back.