Well, with Rosewood you’ve also got the bracing. However, the maple is laminated and pressed into the arch shape... so...I don’t know which is heavier from NH.
Yeah it's been debated a bit before.
Somebody once contended that the glue made the laminations heavier but I don't buy it.
Lamination is
supposed to offer superior strength for less weight, it's why it came into such widespread use in construction.
And I simply cannot believe that the layers of hide glue between the laminations weigh more than an equal volume of wood.
To top it all off, the central layer of the lamination is typically a lighter wood like poplar or larch, at least it was in Westerly.
Hans mentioned it a long time ago.
But you got my curiosity up about the relative weights of maple and rosewood, it's come up before, and I finally found awebsite that shows it:
http://www.wood-database.com/brazilian-rosewood/
That one has maple at 44lb/cu.ft and both Brazilian and EIR at 52lbs/cu.ft. (!)
I was surprised, I expected 'em to be much closer.
Heck, while I'm at it, might as well toss in Honduran Mahogany (mid-to-late Westerly's go-to) at 37lbs/cu.ft.
Wow, who'da thunk rosewood out weighs 'hog by about 42% by volume?
All our luthier members.... :glee: