Most people talk about the way the figure moves and how 3-dimensional The Tree wood is. Never heard the "turtleback" designation before but think it really fits. There's also a bunch of quilted sapele that you see a number of guitars (including my Caldwell) built with - very tightly figured like The Tree but figure is compressed into much smaller fingerprints. That stuff I'm told is also from one tree.
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Martin OM-42SB
MJ Franks 000-12 Brazilian/Carpathian
J Kinnaird 000-12 Birdseye/Sitka
Flammang SEL
SCGC 00-12 EIR/Sitka
SCGC OM Mahogany/Moon
Last edited by roberts; 01-07-2012 at 09:32 AM.
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