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| Author: | crich [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:58 am ] |
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As I understand..grain should be perpendicular to the fingerboard on acoustic and glue-in necks on electric,but, if you do a bolt-on,fender style, the grain should be parallel(same direction) as the fingerboard because the the bolts hold better? Just one of those things that I was never privy of...Clinton |
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| Author: | David Collins [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:12 am ] |
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I believe it has more to do with economics than with function. Fender did very very few things for purely functional reasons. Leo was a frugal businessman, and I assume flatsawn maple was used because it was cheaper and more widely available, and with electric guitar strings and a truss rod worked just fine. Many choices made for simply financial and production reasons in early instruments of a particular flavor (solid body electric guitars in this case) gained the status of a desired standard over time. Those instruments were what was available at the time, and it's what the musicians who defined a new sound used. People became conditioned to that sound as good. It defined the goal for later players. There are people making quartered maple necks today, but I've heard complaints about being to stiff and bright. Had they been quartered in the 50's I'm sure players today would complain that flat sawn is to loose and floppy. When trying to figure out why something is done a certain way, it can often be a big mistake to search for some ultimate quality or reason to a design, because it's often not there. It's usually much more revealing to consider the context in which the instruments were produced, and the market they were made for. |
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| Author: | crich [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:10 am ] |
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MMMM, I used walnut on my last acoustic and it was pretty bright. Of course that's compared to mahogany or sapele. But maple would be even brighter? Quartered would be brighter still? Clinton |
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| Author: | Brad Goodman [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:40 pm ] |
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What makes you think that quarterswawn would is "stiffer"or stronger than flatsawn wood- can you prove it it any way? |
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