All-hog guitars

[Dave Bagwill]

I've not played an all-mahogany instrument - how would you characterize the sound of a good one (not a cheapie?)
Do you like the sound?

[Kevin in California]

I've only seen/played one. It was a Martin OOO. I thought it was woody, a bit bright and not alot of projection.
I've thought about doing an all sapele back sides top for the fun of it.

[Dave Bagwill]

This one sounds pretty good through headsets. Definitely more up-front than eir/spruce for example, sacrifices some complexity. Kind of between a good ladder braced and an x-braced.
I like it. I wonder about the sapele - do it, man!!

http://youtu.be/99qPXnMFQUo

A good slow tune: http://youtu.be/jo-B2o439Gk

[Kevin in California]

Sweet sounds. Sapele character is supposed to be similar to hog so should work man. Maybe about 3 projects down the pike

[ken cierp]

I am not a huge fan of Honduran Mahogany sound boards -- D17's to my ear are much brighter than the more common Spruce top D18's. I think the out put in more homogenized as well -- I believe recording techs much prefer to work with the D18's even over D28's.

Now Sapele is physically much different than Honduran or African Mahogany it weighs 15% more and the interlocking grain ( I hate that) this makes it much stiffer, these are reasons the sound from a D17 differs so much. Plus as compared to Sitka Spruce even the Honduran is 55% heavier!