bluesypicky
Enlightened Member
Yes.
Thank you, Pascal, for your succinct and honest answer..... I bow down to you. :encouragement:Yes.
Thank you, Pascal, for your succinct and honest answer..... I bow down to you. :encouragement:
I think the answer is "it depends" Some manufacturers models may be spec'd with AAA or AAAA wood tops etc. If those models happen to have a lot of binding and inlay bling, then the answer is "yes". But generally I dont think buying an upscale model necessarily gets you a higher grade of wood than another good quality model in historically produced guitars. In foreign manufacture I would say yes quite possibly you are getting a lower grade wood.
You flatter me, and it's appreciated, but not quite accurate.Adorshki, I haven't been here long, but you are obviously the resident Guild Guru here at LTG.
8 years a member, 5 days a week.How do you know all this stuff?... I am but a mere peasant
My pleasure Tom.
Al and I have an unspoken agreement: He gives the long answers, I focus on the short ones.
Back in the sixties, a friend had his guitars worked on by Bozo Padunovac when he had his shop in Chicago. Bozo told him that he put the most ornate decorations on guitars that sounded better to him. May well have been because of better tone wood.
Brad
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Collings Guitars used "tone tapping"while selecting and shaping the tops for all their guitars, at least several years ago when I took the tour.
New Hartford occasionally used tone tapping but not for every instrument.
New Hartford would go into the stockroom to look for the "best wood" when making expensive and/or limited editions. I understood "best" to mean potential tone and visuals.
Based upon various definitions of bling and the idea that sometimes "less is more" I would expect the target MSRP to correlate better with wood "quality" than "bling".
Guild also changed bracing at various price points so to say that two Guild models are the same except one has more bling requires some elaboration on which models and when they were made because the generalization is not always true.
Kudos to your friend for allowing somebody by the name of Bozo to work on his guitars. That took a lot of guts.
But do the AA AAA or AAAA tops LOOK better....or do they SOUND better <-- rhetorical question
There ain't a doubt that folks are not going to pull the biggest wallets out for shoddy looking tops...but I've seen plenty of big wallets buy fair sounding guitars that look great. Looks may not always translate to sound....but the money shot (more these days than ever) is how good does it look.
Kudos to your friend for allowing somebody by the name of Bozo to work on his guitars. That took a lot of guts.
The uglier the wood the better it sounds same for why ugly dogs are soooooo cute ! ��
No. OP's fighting the good fight on another forum arguing against small-minded penny-pinchers who believe that the big bad guitar manufacturers are in a conspiracy to force you to pay for bling you don't need, in order to get the best wood they have.I think I got lost in this thread is it just about the bling models getting higher graded wood then the none bling models and tone having nothing to do it ? Lol
Twins in a litter, even better!
No. OP's fighting the good fight on another forum arguing against small-minded penny-pinchers who believe that the big bad guitar manufacturers are in a conspiracy to force you to pay for bling you don't need, in order to get the best wood they have.
We're just givin' 'im ammo and pointing out that good looking wood don't necessarily sing well is one more bullet.
Hey, that reminds me:
Ever heard of the Taylor pallet guitar?