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Post by andyhowell on Mar 23, 2018 7:06:11 GMT
cedar cool and smooth ... Bit like you eh Andy? You and your great hair... They don't call me Ralph for nothing.
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Post by nkforster on Mar 23, 2018 11:20:33 GMT
Compare and contrast. Basically the same guitar: Same player, same tune, same room, same mics, same back and sides. Different soundboards. The first is cedar, the second European spruce. Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com
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Post by nkforster on Mar 23, 2018 11:21:09 GMT
Same chair too. Same trousers.
Different shirt and haircut though.
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Post by lavaman on Mar 23, 2018 11:31:42 GMT
Any guitar played by Ian Stephenson sounds good. For what its worth I prefer the cedar top.
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Post by pender on Mar 23, 2018 13:29:50 GMT
Thanks, Nigel!
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Post by Phil Taylor on Mar 23, 2018 15:01:27 GMT
I think I prefer the cedar top too.
Ian does of course play with a pick so it will sound different to anyone using fingers only and particularly flesh rather than nails so that needs to be considered somehow. Having said that this is an excellent comparison.
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Post by nkforster on Mar 24, 2018 1:20:11 GMT
I think I prefer the cedar top too. Stephen does of course play with a pick so it will sound different to anyone using fingers only and particularly flesh rather than nails so that needs to be considered somehow. Having said that this is an excellent comparison. Phil Stephen? You mean Ian?
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Post by Phil Taylor on Mar 24, 2018 14:50:53 GMT
I think I prefer the cedar top too. Stephen does of course play with a pick so it will sound different to anyone using fingers only and particularly flesh rather than nails so that needs to be considered somehow. Having said that this is an excellent comparison. Phil Stephen? You mean Ian? I don't think I said Stephen did I Nigel. Phil
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Post by dobro on Mar 25, 2018 18:54:09 GMT
That is one beautiful sounding guitar! We didn't make many cedar top guitars when I worked for Stefan, so I didn't make many "on spec" after starting my own business, which is a few years ago now. Anyway, when I was in Italy a few years back one of the dealers had a couple of hundred Western red cedar soundboards gathering dust in a corner. There's nothing I like more than piles of wood that have gathered a bit of dust. What got overlooked twenty years ago, is always worth looking at now. Long story short, I bought about 30 tops. Here is one of them. Enjoy! Nigel www.nkforsterguitars.com
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Post by Onechordtrick on Mar 25, 2018 19:09:15 GMT
Beautiful sound there, my mandolin has a cedar top and that might now explain what made it special to my ears when I chose it.
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Post by pender on Mar 29, 2018 18:46:06 GMT
I've read and heard good things about Lakewood M-14 but I'm not sure about the neck, the 46 mm nut width and the 58 mm bridge spacing. It seems too much for my liking...
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