| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] MAS its laminate for Gods sake! | | Date: | Monday, January 30, 2006 14:36:39 (-0800) | | From: | Scott R. Shank <sshank @.........net>
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--- "Mike & Lisa R." <mikerr765@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would really have a hard time telling my friends
> i spent $3500 on a laminate guitar and its painted
> black to boot?? Can they really sound that much
> better than a R?? Someone explain this to me maybe i
A wise old luthier once told me two absolute truths of
musical instrument construction:
1. Making an instrumetn out of solid wood does not
automatically make it a good instrument.
2. Making an instrument out of laminate does not
automatically make it a bad instrument.
Laminate sounds _different_ from solid wood. Not
better, not worse, different. The degree of control
one can exert over laminates (how the wood is cut?
How the wood is layered? What glues are used, under
what pressure/temperature) can all play a part in what
kinda sound you're gonna get when it's all put
together.
By the same token, a solid instrument built of wood
that's not (relatively) straight grained, not cut
correctly, not properly dried and not skillfully
assembled won't sound good, no matter how much the
lumber costs.
Good quality laminates also cost every bit as much as
any good kind of solid wood. We must get past the
mistaken notion of laminate always equals cheap. (If
you don't believe me, go price a chunk of really good
instrument plywood someday...)
The MA is a marvelous instrument. It's built from
laminate because Mr. Auldridge, and, apparently, quite
a few other people, like the sound of a laminate box.
It would NOT sound the same in solid wood (and may or
may not sound better).
Scott
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