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How about hickory for back/sides?

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:04 pm
by MaineGeezer
Any thoughts on using hickory for back/sides?

Drawbacks:
Fairly heavy (though probably no worse than rosewood)
Coarse grain, not likely to be "beautiul"
Some tendency to splinter

Advantages:
Strong
Hard
???

Re: How about hickory for back/sides?

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:55 pm
by tippie53
makes a decent guitar. My friend made one . Sounds great