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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
All mahogany is not the same as all solid mahogany, many manufacturers use this slightly misleading terminology.
Solid Mahogany Top, Mahoglany back and sides
if it doesnt say solid before the back and sides, its not solid, trust me - its an old way of making it look better than it is. Lots of brands do this
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Oiled the fretboard, changed strings etc - very nice sound (think of Lowden cedar/walnut) but as per tonewood charts you can see it's got quite a bit of treble and too piercing a treble doesn't go well with my old eardrums (I thought the cedar would have tamed it but alas, not). So unfortunately going to return - I now know I am not big on harder woods that give too much bass and particularly too much treble (never liked koa for this reason) - softer woods all the way for me. So actually - good old mahogany / sapele is my best bet and it's no wonder I always like playing those guitars. The Bhilwara I recently got, I must say, is fantastic - softer than rosewood so you don't get the high-end shrill. With bass oomph and the resonance of rosewood but the woody sound of mahogany. So in effect I have 3 different types of mahogany guitar-
-- sapele (less mid-range hump, slightly wider frequency range low & high than mahogany)
-- "genuine" mahogany
-- Bhilwara
I am now absolutely exhausted from buying guitars, my house looking like a guitar shop. It ends now lol
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My trading feedback: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/210335/yorkie
* Sapele 114% (156%) 105%.
* Indian Rosewood 141% (270%) 114%
Or, expressed relative to rosewood:
* Honduran Mahogany 71% (37%) 87%
* Sapele 81% (58%) 92%
* Indian Rosewood 100% (100%) 100% (natch)
The key points to note (as I see it) is that Sapele - often used as a mahogany substitute - is much harder than mahogany (56%), and that Bhilwarra (often compared to rosewood) is quite a lot softer than rosewood (33%).
By the way, I have it in mind in 2024 or 2025 when I next go to Sri Lanka for a few weeks to order a guitar from a Sri Lankan maker, using Sri Lankan native tonewoods. Celon Rosewood (Bhilwarra) is an obvious candidate. I don't really know how the instrument will play, and that's not the main point: I love Sri Lanka and it will be nice to have a hand-crafted reminder in my living room when I'm getting too old to travel to the steamy tropics. It won't cost much - maybe a quarter or a sixth of what I'd expect to spend on a hand-made guitar in Australia or the US or UK - and (who knows?) it might turn out to be a lot of fun to play as well.
As with my British guitar project, there are lots and lots of good local timbers to make necks, fretboards, and back & sides from, but finding a local softwood for the top will be difficult.
I swear the moon spruce top ony Bhilwara mellows the sound a bit, in a really satisfying way.
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