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Suggestions for my next bulid.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:16 pm
by Haggis
Hi.
I would like some advices from you pro`s...what´s my build #2 is going to be made of. I play the guitar..mostly finger picking. I´m thinking...OM style, but I´m not sure if it´s gonna be mahogany...maple..walnut..Koa.?? I don´t know how to combine the tone woods! Engelman...sitka for the top or something else?
Just for info...I´ll try to build from scratch next time:)
Häggis
Re: Suggestions for my next bulid.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:01 pm
by darren
om or oo in walnut/cedar and mahogany/cedar are really popular for fingerstyle right now.
Re: Suggestions for my next bulid.
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:50 am
by longbow
I made a 1937 d-18 copy thats out of this world, but because it has medium strings and sounds best picked my cousin , a fingerman bearly looks at it. From what I see fingerpicking guitars are om's or 12-frets with at least 1-3/4 nut wt. and 2-5/16 bridge pin holes also light strings. I went on musician friends site and studied all the 3-5 thou... guitars looked at the spec. and copied. They had more info before some is gone now.Anyway I'll be making a 12 fret for finger style next wide all around , rosewood, good top ect. Thats what makes this so cool I'm finishing #5 now, and all 5 are different. Just dive in and do'nt let anything stop you. hum... lets see what kind of pick up's are out there. Cocobollo sounds like glass, europeon spruce top cannon, bone nut -saddle, ebony , hard shellac french polish...I think I'am obsessed good luck.
Re: Suggestions for my next bulid.
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:13 am
by Darryl Young
Redwood and Walnut.......warmth of cedar and the snap of spruce (quote from Todd Stock on the tone of redwood).
Re: Suggestions for my next bulid.
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:59 pm
by Ben-Had
000 (24.9 scale) Adirondack (Red Spruce) top, Honduran Mahogany B/S, Adirondack bracing, mahogany reverse kerfing, mahogany end and tail blocks, Mahogany neck, Waverly tuners, abalone rosette, curly maple binding/end wedge/heel cap, rosewood fretboard/bridge, bone nut, saddle and bridge pins, D'Addario flat wound EFT-16 strings.
Re: Suggestions for my next bulid.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:29 pm
by Haggis
I like walnut....I think I´ll try that.
But as someone said.."finish #1 first" :)
Thank for the replies
Re: Suggestions for my next bulid.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:03 pm
by tippie53
Man , the perfect finger picker is the nose HEhehe
In seriousness I do like the OM . The one wood combo I am liking more and more is Honduran Rosewood and Carpathia. There are many options out there for finger pickers . We all know that the Martin 000 and OM are staples in this area.
I have a 1944 00-17 that is all mahogany and it is remarkable in the tone and volume for such a small guitar.