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Jack-Otter 10-14-2009 10:58 AM

ponder this.....
 
Which is more important to you:

Different size guitars (parlor, OOO, OM, D, Jumbo) in similar tone woods;

or

Similar size guitars in different tone woods?

ljguitar 10-14-2009 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack-Otter (Post 1988594)
...Which is more important to you:
...Different size guitars (parlor, OOO, OM, D, Jumbo) in similar tone woods; or Similar size guitars in different tone woods?

Hi Jack...
I've exercised a third option - different size guitars in different tone woods...



gary palmer 10-14-2009 11:04 AM

Neither. Just finding an instrument that's pleasing to the ear, very playable and capable of fulfilling it's purpose.

Brackett Instruments 10-14-2009 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ljguitar (Post 1988601)
Hi Jack...
I've exercised a third option - different size guitars in different tone woods...



You can't have too many guitars!!!!!

How about different size guitars, in different tone woods......as well as different size guitars, in the same tone woods.....as well as the same size guitars, with different tone woods, as well as the same size guitars, with the same tone woods, from different makers:D:D:D

SuperB23 10-14-2009 11:08 AM

Funny stuff woodyb!! :D LOL

for years I would have said like size with different tonewoods. I used to like having a Spruce/Rosewood Dread and a Spruce/Mahogany, maple, or koa dread.

Now I really love the overtones and natural reverb that rosewood has so I ordered another smaller sized fingerstyle guitar with Italian spruce and madagascar rosewood slightly different flavor of the main dread I own. I think it will be a great compliment too the Dread!!

rmyAddison 10-14-2009 11:09 AM

I do both.

I have Martin dreads in EIR, Madagascar and Mahogany, and OM/000's in EIR, Madagascar, Tasmanian Blackwood, and Mahogany.

Tops are Sitka, Carpathian, Englemann and Adirondack.

I like a variety of woods and sizes....:)

gh1 10-14-2009 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by gary palmer (Post 1988605)
Neither. Just finding an instrument that's pleasing to the ear, very playable and capable of fulfilling it's purpose.

Yep. If it's comfortable to hold, easy to play and sounds good, i really don't care what it is made of, or what shape it is.

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gh1

Glennwillow 10-14-2009 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack-Otter (Post 1988594)
Which is more important to you:

Different size guitars (parlor, OOO, OM, D, Jumbo) in similar tone woods;

or

Similar size guitars in different tone woods?

I have taken both routes...

El Conquistador 10-14-2009 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Glennwillow (Post 1988625)
I have taken both routes...

Guilty as charged.
LC

devellis 10-14-2009 11:48 AM

Okay, so w have multiple top woods, multiple back/side woods, multiple body sizes, and multiple builders. Let's not forget multiple scale lengths, multiple nut widths, and muliple neck profiles. And that just scratches the surface. The combinations are mind-boggling. No wonder we all have GAS!

Huckleberry 10-14-2009 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack-Otter (Post 1988594)
Which is more important to you:

Different size guitars (parlor, OOO, OM, D, Jumbo) in similar tone woods;

or

Similar size guitars in different tone woods?

Both!!

But given restrictions imposed by reality, I go for a mixture. My three guitars all have different wood combos, different sizes, different scale lengths and different nut widths. And I love having that variety.

And that's to say nothing of the voicing differences between different builders.

If I could add one more it would be an African blackwood/spruce GC with 1 3/4 nut or wider. From a different builder.

Acoustic Rick 10-14-2009 12:41 PM

Different size guitars

For me that's what matters.

Wade Hampton 10-14-2009 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ljguitar (Post 1988601)
Hi Jack...
I've exercised a third option - different size guitars in different tone woods...



Ditto. And it's not as though there's been anything PLANNED or SYSTEMATIC about any of this: I've just acquired instruments along the way, and the ones that suit me most have been retained, while the ones that haven't have generally been sold or traded off to gain the next one.


whm


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