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jfmckenna
PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:02 am 
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This is an 00 style guitar I just finished up. I've never seen a top like this before. It is Carpathian spruce. It looks a lot like the ribbon figure you see on nice quarter sawn mahogany. It also has a really weird runout pattern that you cannot see in this photo. You have to hold it in the light and move it back and forth to see it. The best way I can describe it is that it looks like the BMW automobile logo, if you know what I mean.

Anyway it's a great sounding little parlor guitar but I just wanted to share an interesting looking top.

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Pics are broken for me. Could be on my side though. :D

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Same here, no pics

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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I have no information to offer but that is a pretty top!

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Ribbon figure (interlocked grain) occurs in some spruce trees near the butt. Splitting of the wood into short billets will reveal a washboard surface, due to the periodic spiral of the grain. Violin makers traditionally avoided using this wood, because the grain makes it a bit more difficult to carve. But I have found that red spruce with this figure makes excellent-sounding guitars. It is usually very stiff. On occasion, I have seen ribbon stripe on the prewar Martin and Gibson red spruce tops.

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Perhaps you can see the pics now?

That top was actually pretty darn stiff. I think I thinned that one out to .95in based on my deflection target.
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Can see the lower one. Unusual, pretty!

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Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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