Laminated Spruce Top Guitar

I think that it looks and sounds great.

Laminated spruce top guitar. The sound of your acoustic guitar is a team effort. The af151 155 s are a nice guitar laminated flame maple top back and sides i have an af151 with a classic 57 in i have a lollar cc humbucker size pickup on the way which i intend to replace the 57 with. But arguably the most important component is the top wood. Where lower end builds tend to require less refined and at times questionably sourced wood variations today s boutique flat top guitar builders rely exclusively on the most resonant cuts of solid wood.

I am the original owner of a jasmine by takamine d 70 guitar i bought in 1997. Dennis d i have both laminated spruce and laminated maple guitars and imo they sound different but not everyones hearing is the same. Though ibanez may not be the first brand that comes to an acoustic guitarist s mind when shopping for a dreadnought the avd60nt which has a torrefied they call it thermo aged adirondack spruce top and spruce braces delivered straight up mahogany dreadnought tone. Read on for the full lowdown.

A laminated top will generally make an acoustic guitar sound mellower and have less harmonic complexity overtones. I keep it in a hard case. With very rare exception it will also likely be a little quieter than an equivalent solid topped guitar. Advantages of laminated top guitars include their lower cost and relative durability.

Construction hardware neck shape the list goes on. In this article we ll delve deeper into the debate of solid tops vs. Using solid wood for the top is still preferred by most builders because the top plays a major role in translating the initial energy of vibrating guitar strings into rich acoustic sound. Usually the term spruce top means that the top of the guitar is constructed of laminated plies of wood.

In an effort to offer customers other more affordable options many builders also make guitars featuring laminate back and sides. What i look for in a laminated top is a thin sound hole edge. By the way the conn was a great sounding guitar but it came time for a neck reset and it wasn t worth the money. A solid top improves tone and volume so even if the rest of the guitar is laminate having a solid top is pretty cool and a sign of a nicer instrument that is usually at least one step up from the cheaper acoustics.

A major difference between laminate and solid wood guitars involves how the tonewood is sourced and processed. Laminate back and sides. It has a spruce laminate top. Usually it has been chamfered to show only the top ply.

Often only the top layer is spruce with less costly woods making up the layers underneath. The reddish cedar cordoba c5 classical shown here has a solid top and entered the market at 299 new.