Top woods and their break-in periods

How do top woods stack up in terms of breaking-in? From what I understand, Sitka takes the longest time to break-in and cedar and redwood will break in most quickly. Is this correct? If so, where would Carp, Adirondack, Engelmann and Lutz fit in the break-in scheme of top woods?

-tommy

[tippie53]

Adi often takes longed than the sitka but there are some variables , Thickness and brace combination. There are a lot of gimmics out there lie tonerite but there is nothing better than playing it.

[Darryl Young]

My guess is that many factories thickness to a particular dimension (instead of a particular stiffness) so the stiffer spuce species (red spruce and sitka for example) seemed to take longer to "break-in" when they were actually a little too stiff (left too thick for their stiffness).

Likewise, the least stiff species (cedar, englemann, etc.) tend to sound good very quickly and possibly that is because at their thickness they were left close to the right stiffness.

I've read posts from custom builders that said they've had red spruce sound good right out of the box when thicknessed properly. Just a thought.