Post by Garland on Feb 20, 2023 9:36:59 GMT -5
Wood grain spacing. Derick, you're the one with the most experience in ownership quantity... have you, by any chance, ever looked closely and equated it to the sound?
The dates on this thread start in 2020... then resume a couple days ago. Interesting, to me, observations. I hadn't given the grain spacing much thought, and probably never will, but I will pay closer attention, because.
My Orangewood has a pretty, to me, grain pattern with a darker (darkened) streak that I find appealing.
My others (except the 00015M) are painted so I can't really tell...
a poster, David Olson, posted this link as well:
David Olson MS, MD, currently consults with Pacific Rim Tonewoods (PRT), and serves as the Director of Research. PRT is the largest supplier of spruce tonewood in the world, and supplies the bulk of the Sitka spruce soundboard blanks and bracing billets for the American guitar industry. His most recent publication is 'Perceptual evaluation of bracewood and soundboard wood variations on the preference of a steel-string acoustic guitar'. The bulk of the work concerns the grading of guitar soundboard wood by acoustic means. We collaborate with the CIRAD lab in Montpellier, France; the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and The University for Sustainable Development in Eberswalde, Germany, among others.
I'm saving the link for future reading because I have errands to run....
