Sapeli vs Maple for a Martin Jumbo
Now I've fixed the excess of warmth of my OM28 with a bit more of 'chocolate' on it, I'm starting to imagine my perfect 'big' guitar.And after hearing John Renbourn's D62 and one J65 I'm shocked how...
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Usually I'm not much of a beer drinker, but the weather is right and there's no air conditioning in this here cabin. So yeah, pour me a large one. Thanks.Tastes good.Mmmm....... Oh, what was the...
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There's always a good breeze blowing thru... we might have to chink the walls afore long. I've played some interesting maple Martins, and think a J-65 would be great. I'm having a little harder time...
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OK, I feel much better now. Both great choices, fir. Maple will be dryer, but sapele can also be pretty transparant, although it does give some of that tropical-wood color to the tone. If you're...
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Quote:If you're looking for "pop", don't rule out the M. Being frank, if I buy another guitar I'll prefer something more different from my OM . I think I would like that extra depth of the J.Quote:No...
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Henk! What are those guitars? Are they Martins? Maple Martin with laminated necks? I gots to know!DD
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Good points, fir, I'll keep them in mind.Quote:I'd like to learn a bit more of the tonal properties of Maple and Sapeli. Could you add a bit more ? ( I know you have a lot more data ) Well, actually I...
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Quote:Well, actually I don't have any real objective data about tone, just some subjective pictures in my head. But I'll see what I can do. If I can't come up with anything, I'll direct you to some...
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OK, hardness. Here's a janka scale:www.sizes.com/units/janka.htmLook at the different maple species:maple, bigleaf         Acer macrophyllum    ...
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>Now look at mahogany:mahogany, true Swietenia macrophylla 3.6 800And sapele:sapele Entandrophragma cylindricum 6.7 1510<On paper, a sapele 15 series should sound a lot different than a mahogany...
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Henk, do you know the hardness of european maple ? ( Acer pseudoplatanus ). It has less density than sugar maple : 630 kg/m3 vs 740 kg/m3, but I don't know the hardness.It is what Martin is using on...
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I've played quite a few 000-15 models made of mahogany, and several of sapele (the local shop sells so many of them that they actually keep a back-stock, not on the sales floor) . I thought there was...
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Quote:Henk,do you know the hardness of european maple ? ( Acer pseudoplatanus ).Yep. I'll give you the janka hardness in Newtons. The first column in the janka chart in the link I posted earlier is in...
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I just can't seem to get past the "stripy" look of Sapele, though. Before I bought my Martin I played several Guild GAD-25s that are made of Sapele (they advertise they're made of "solid mahogany" but...
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I'm reading this while picking away at my 1986 D-62LE...I've owned this guitar for a while now, and can't get over how much I like its tone. While it is definitely a Martin dread (nice solid...
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