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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I have never seen mahogany that looks anything like that back. Rosewood all the way. The neck and curiously enough the sides as well look like mahogany or one of the 18 zillion mahoganyoid timbers.
Cedar is the key here. I've played cedar over American Black Walnut, Indian Rosewood, Queensland Maple, and Khaya (aka African Mahogany). Loved all of them! In order, my choices would be the walnut (but those were a Lowden and a McIlroy, so hardly fair), Queensland Maple (my excellent Maton dred), Kyaya (a very nice Furch Blue) and the rosewood (Auden parlor - still a delightful instrument). (Also a few less memorable combinations, a nasty little Sheeran among them.)
All of those had far more in common with each other than with any spruce-top guitar. Cedar has that wonderful warm clarity, a sound you just don't get with spruce - which offers clarity OR warmth but never both at the same time. (At least not in the same way cedar does. Or Redwood for that matter.)
Will you see a difference between the spruce and walnut Brook and a cedar top (with any back)? Absolutely!
Are you thinking of another Brook? Or casting the net wider?
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.