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I find myself over at Howard Kleppers site every once and a while, and one of my favorite artpiece guitars is definitely "dovetail madness".
Having two types of wood bonded together for nearly every part of the guitar may take the idea Im thinking about here to the extreme, but while listening to soundclips of the same model with different wood combinations, it got me wondering if anyone else had joined two different wood together for a top - or even how differing b&s's may compliment a particular sound objective.
Mabye Howard could chime in about how dovetail madness' sound was impacted with such a radical departure from a traditional top[not to mention the beautiful Gallia!].{Unfortunately there arent any soundclips}
And also of course if anyone knows how different areas of the actual top would be impacted by 2 different top woods {with respect to the top bracing} I would be interested to know what you thought.
Its just that when I was listening to a adi top I could pick out very complimentary areas of the sound - but also with cedar, sitka, etc etc.
It made me wonder - how much experimentation has been done in this area?
Cheers
Charliewood
PS - Im sure mabye there are ppl out there who have an opinion about laminated tops as well, please chime in - Im interested charliewood39052.5590972222

Charlie, go look at Kathy Matsushita's site she did a "weird classical using two top woods, WRC and Englemann.

here's the link.
Weird classical

ColinColin S39052.740474537

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At the GAL convetion this year Charles Fox did a presentation on how he constructs double top guitars. I don't remember if he uses different woods for the skins but you can probably find information on his web site. The technique involves hollowing out the top board and laying in a thin layer of kevlar then covering with another layer to close it off.
Bob

Thanks for the info so far - appearantly Kathy Matsushita loves the sound of her build.

I can see ppl here just love my silly questions.

I was trying to see what people know about this independant of Harry Fleishmans unit because there are just so many differences with his guitars I have seen with dual wood tops.
Just a bump to see if mabye HK will chime in.
I know its not a traditional idea, and probably has been dismissed for this reason - but I thik there may be something to it for ppl looking for a particular sound. Not that Im going to attempt this anytime soon, yet it still interests me.
Cheers
Charliewood

Although this doesn't involve different woods, I believe it was Gottfried
Silbermann who had built some fortepianos and with flatsawn cypress for
the bass side and quartersawn cypress for about the treble third. The
harpsichord builder I worked with constructed a Silbermann style fortepiano
with a Cristofori action in this manner, and said there was certainly a
brilliance and clarity to the highs when compared to the traditional all
flatsawn soundboard.

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