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Look at the 'figure' on this top
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Author:  jfmckenna [ Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:02 am ]
Post subject:  Look at the 'figure' on this top
This is an 00 style guitar I just finished up. I've never seen a top like this before. It is Carpathian spruce. It looks a lot like the ribbon figure you see on nice quarter sawn mahogany. It also has a really weird runout pattern that you cannot see in this photo. You have to hold it in the light and move it back and forth to see it. The best way I can describe it is that it looks like the BMW automobile logo, if you know what I mean.

Anyway it's a great sounding little parlor guitar but I just wanted to share an interesting looking top.

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Author:  bcombs510 [ Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Look at the 'figure' on this top
Pics are broken for me. Could be on my side though. :D
Author:  Colin North [ Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Look at the 'figure' on this top
Same here, no pics
Author:  Bryan Bear [ Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Look at the 'figure' on this top
I have no information to offer but that is a pretty top!
Author:  John Arnold [ Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Look at the 'figure' on this top
Ribbon figure (interlocked grain) occurs in some spruce trees near the butt. Splitting of the wood into short billets will reveal a washboard surface, due to the periodic spiral of the grain. Violin makers traditionally avoided using this wood, because the grain makes it a bit more difficult to carve. But I have found that red spruce with this figure makes excellent-sounding guitars. It is usually very stiff. On occasion, I have seen ribbon stripe on the prewar Martin and Gibson red spruce tops.
Author:  jfmckenna [ Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Look at the 'figure' on this top
Perhaps you can see the pics now?

That top was actually pretty darn stiff. I think I thinned that one out to .95in based on my deflection target.
Author:  Colin North [ Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Look at the 'figure' on this top
Can see the lower one. Unusual, pretty!
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