Members Vatican Posted July 26, 2004 Members Posted July 26, 2004 where do they get all these wide pieces of spruce for martin guitars? are spruce trees especially wide?
Members FingerBone Bill Posted July 26, 2004 Members Posted July 26, 2004 You know they glue two pieces together right?
Members Vatican Posted July 26, 2004 Author Members Posted July 26, 2004 oops. no. i didn't know that. thanks!
Members woody b Posted July 26, 2004 Members Posted July 26, 2004 Seagulls web site does an excellent job of explaining how they make a tophttp://www.seagullguitars.com/seagullstory.htm
Members guitarcapo Posted July 27, 2004 Members Posted July 27, 2004 Actually, finding wide pieces evenly spaced with lots of grain lines per inch is pretty difficult. The spruce tree in your back yard may be 3 feet thick, but a lot of that is unusable. Typically trees growing in isolation have too wide a grain spacing to be used as guitar wood. Trees for guitar wood seem to have to grow very slowly where each line is a year and there are lots of years per inch. Engleman is getting hard to find in 8" pieces that you need for a drednaught guitar, as is red spruce which suffers a lot from acid rain in the east.
Members geek_usa Posted July 27, 2004 Members Posted July 27, 2004 I thought when they pieced the spruce together and glued it together, that meant it was a laminate, and if it was just a one piece body it was a solid top. I know on my Taylor the back and sides are glued, but the top looks completely like one piece. somebody set me straight here
Members SongMan Posted July 27, 2004 Members Posted July 27, 2004 My Collings D3 has 2 piece front 2 piece back and it's definetly a solid wood guitar http://www.larriveeforum.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=1027 Mine is #3:D and here is my front http://65.54.246.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=69d3d5fa1bdb34e85aae2d5b59431ac0&lat=1090948171&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fhillcountryguitars%2ecom%2fsong%2f
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