Laminated Rosewood Back And Sides

This is a beautifully made guitar with a solid spruce top gorgeous laminated rosewood back and sides and some of the nicest abalone purfling and rosette you ll find anywhere.

Laminated rosewood back and sides. Nut and saddle are hand cut bone. Mohgany is softer than rosewood thus the soundwaves reflect differently on the 2 woods. Next we have the cashimira model 81 526 740. Laminated walnut back and sides ebony fingerboard and bridge.

Layered rosewood taylor s layered backs and sides incorporate three layers of wood featuring a middle core of poplar with a veneer on each side. The side and back are more of a reflective influnce to the sound. Your veneered back and sides have three layers of wood with glue between them. They are strong and make a good guitar but they can t produce the complexity of tone that you hear in a solid wood guitar.

It was an awfully fine sounding guitar especially strummed. Does having solid sides make a difference to the sound. But it works wonders as back and sides if it produces the kind of sound you are looking for. So if you are using the theory that the laminate guitars are going to sound differently to that i will agree.

It would be hard to see how solid wood could have sounded any better given that it was a quite inexpensive guitar that sounded better. Neck is fully bound as is the headstock and we feature premium quality gold tuners. Guitars built with solid back sides commence with the admira teresa costing 410 578. My first guitar was one of the original model johnson carolina dreadnoughts with laminated rosewood back and side and engelmann spruce solid top.

While layered woods won t produce quite as complex a sound as solid woods they allow us to blend exotic looks with climate resilient construction. As i said lovely guitar so may be it does. Rosewood also has strong mids like mahogany but it expands its tonal range in both directions it produces pronounced lows and crisp highs. The outside layer is rosewood and the inside layers are less valuable.

Admira artista lovely guitar costing 243 342 built with solid sides laminated back.