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All-hog guitars
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 2:01 am
by 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?
Re: All-hog guitars
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 3:04 pm
by 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.
Re: All-hog guitars
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 3:30 pm
by 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
Re: All-hog guitars
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 1:15 pm
by 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
Re: All-hog guitars
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 4:09 pm
by 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!