curiosity question - - - major rework?
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 8:14 pm
Folks,
There's been some discussion lately about Alaskan yellow cedar being used for soundboards, in some detail. Idea for my question being that if someone's building experiment using yellow cedar turned up more experience than satisfaction, and our builder decided to remove that yellow cedar soundboard and replace it with, for example, Sitka spruce. Do folks do this, swap soundboards, if the original one seems to be the reason the guitar does not offer an enjoyable voice? I've seen mention of doing a soundboard swap as a repair technique on higher-end instruments, but I don't recall seeing a discussion of doing that on a home luthier's project gone awry. Just wondering about that sort of major remedy, or is the remedy usually to hang up the guitar as a wall sculpture and go build another one? Is there a threshold which, once passed, the guitar becomes a sculpture?
Thanks for thoughts and comments.
There's been some discussion lately about Alaskan yellow cedar being used for soundboards, in some detail. Idea for my question being that if someone's building experiment using yellow cedar turned up more experience than satisfaction, and our builder decided to remove that yellow cedar soundboard and replace it with, for example, Sitka spruce. Do folks do this, swap soundboards, if the original one seems to be the reason the guitar does not offer an enjoyable voice? I've seen mention of doing a soundboard swap as a repair technique on higher-end instruments, but I don't recall seeing a discussion of doing that on a home luthier's project gone awry. Just wondering about that sort of major remedy, or is the remedy usually to hang up the guitar as a wall sculpture and go build another one? Is there a threshold which, once passed, the guitar becomes a sculpture?
Thanks for thoughts and comments.