A Rosewood Topped Acoustic Guitar?! Can Furch Make it Work? Furch Yellow Dark Series

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At the 2024 NAMM Show Furch Guitars unveiled a curious series of guitars with East Indian Rosewood tops. The Yellow Dark series take the popular Yellow Series and adds the curious feature of a rosewood top. Now, we have often wondered about this approach and have heard form some builders that it isn't possible to do because of the density of rosewood. Can Furch pull it off? Cooper and Chris find out.
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0:00 Intro
0:37 Rosewood Tops?!
3:20 Specs
5:49 GC-RR Demo
7:19 DC-RR Demo
8:50 Final Thoughts
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  • 3 ай бұрын

    5:05 I'm the owner of the rosewood OM from Alamo. It was such a standout that we took it home. The dreadnought is spectacular in person! When Cooper said everyone liked it, it's true. The low end is rich and dark in the best way. I play fingerstyle and some strumming and the OM had crisp note definition in the treble with that beautiful low end darkness. We have spruce mahogany and spruce rosewood guitars so this is something sonically different. The neck finish is perfect. No drag when playing. Overall construction is excellent. I'd argue better than a standard series Martin which is a similar price. Love it. It found the right home. ❤ Thanks David for showing it to us. Sorry, not sorry, we got it before Chris and Cooper could record the video.

  • @ronmoore1219
    @ronmoore12193 ай бұрын

    At the beginning, I thought the notes were compressed even more than with mahogany. But the strumming really brought the overtones and harmonics together. Great sustain and balance. Beautiful guitar, both aesthetically and sonically. Another perfect showcase, Cooper. How well you two pick these out at NAMM amazes me in all the “sax and drums.”

  • @TheWhiskeyCowboyLife
    @TheWhiskeyCowboyLife3 ай бұрын

    Beautiful. I am a fingerstylist who plays simple and single notes.. and wow, I loved how the GC sounded. I also love how they are NOT BLINGY. So many high end guitars just put too much "stuff' and bling on them for my taste. The dark is awesome.

  • @filipsrtx
    @filipsrtx3 ай бұрын

    Is it just me or do the sound superb with the blooming single notes and swelling harmonics? Like wow

  • @WahrheitMachtFrei.
    @WahrheitMachtFrei.3 ай бұрын

    Would be useful to hear A/B with the spruce Yellow series too...

  • @robertdievendorf3312
    @robertdievendorf33123 ай бұрын

    Sounds good but I second the motion for a comparison between these and their cedar topped counterparts.

  • @seanhallahan14
    @seanhallahan143 ай бұрын

    Rosewood tops!!! Holey smoley. Good for Furch!! Thanks Gents for bringing forward such neighboring sizes with such dramatically different sounds. Wow.

  • @AndreRMeyer
    @AndreRMeyer3 ай бұрын

    I love the 👓, 🤓😎. No pun intended. Greetings from the sunny climes of Basle, Switzerland

  • @johnmarler6735
    @johnmarler67353 ай бұрын

    Nice Guitars. Glad to see you guys survived the storms.

  • @PhoenixCharredEagle
    @PhoenixCharredEagle3 ай бұрын

    Glad to see this happening!

  • @sumdunt1187
    @sumdunt11873 ай бұрын

    The dreadnaught sounds phenomenal

  • @markkinsey2436
    @markkinsey24363 ай бұрын

    We were in the San Antonio area due to the eclipse and made a 'pilgrimage' to one of your stores. I played one of the rosewood tops that were pointed out to me and it was interesting. I only used my fingers, no pick, but the sound was really interesting. There were plenty of overtones which didn't surprise me. I think I like it more with a pick now that I heard the demo.

  • @artrogers3985
    @artrogers39853 ай бұрын

    Pretty guitars and new music. Now that’s a good Saturday 🎸

  • @scottfishkind5335
    @scottfishkind53352 ай бұрын

    I’m a Furch Yellow Master’s Choice Gc-CR owner and as big a Furch fan as possible! I really was skeptical with an all Rosewood guitar even from Furch! Wow, they knocked it out of the park!! I think they’ve got some serious Hogwarts magic going on there!! Great presentation as well from you guys!!

  • @toddpoppleton5303
    @toddpoppleton53033 ай бұрын

    For me it was love at first strum!

  • @opidonorman8833
    @opidonorman88333 ай бұрын

    Sounds exactly how I had imagined.

  • @NeonShores
    @NeonShores17 күн бұрын

    These are furchin gorgeous!

  • @IraDuncan
    @IraDuncan3 ай бұрын

    Good afternoon Chris and Cooper- I'm glad I watched this video. Furch definitely made a bold move and it appears to have come to fruition nicely. I'm coming into my 27th year as a player and I often use DADGAD as one of my go-to tunings. I think these guitars would shine in such a tuning, or in DGDGBbD.

  • @mfd14534
    @mfd145343 ай бұрын

    I’ll take them!

  • @ljmiller96
    @ljmiller963 ай бұрын

    "Can Furch make it work?" Great internal rhyme.

  • @ramjayanthravichandran
    @ramjayanthravichandran3 ай бұрын

    What kind of sound profile would you get from a red cedar top with rosewood back sides and vice versa?

  • @texhaines9957
    @texhaines99573 ай бұрын

    Where did the OM fit in sound?

  • @jimdoner3443
    @jimdoner34433 ай бұрын

    Any 12 strings in these models

  • @ThePonDePon
    @ThePonDePon2 ай бұрын

    Before watching this video, I'm gonna go ahead and predict that this'll sound like a mahogany guitar but warmer and more woodsy sounding Edit: I imagine a denser top would allow for a lighter and more scalloped bracing Edit edit: i didn't expect it to be so chimey 👀

  • @1man1guitarletsgo
    @1man1guitarletsgo3 ай бұрын

    Let's hear them against their more traditional siblings please. I thought they sounded "mellow". I'm not a fan of one-wood guitars, because I think it's better to pair a softwood top with hardwood back & sides, to cover more tonal palette, but these rosewood guitars not only sound good, they also look superb.

  • @ThatVibrato
    @ThatVibrato2 күн бұрын

    Amazing guitars. Really want to ditch my BE k24ce for these. Unfortunately the Furch cases look ugly hahaa..

  • @mariodriessen9740
    @mariodriessen97403 ай бұрын

    Are the tops made out of one piece?

  • @kittyemzcanada
    @kittyemzcanada3 ай бұрын

    💙👍💯...I REALLY like the sound produced by this guitar....to my ear, it's what the love child of a Yamaha FG9 and a Boucher SG 161 would come out sounding like.

  • @30smsuperstrat
    @30smsuperstratАй бұрын

    Did Cooper Punch Tony Polecastro in the beard and steal his glasses?😮

  • @reinaldoreyes5631
    @reinaldoreyes56313 ай бұрын

    Thick and compressed is about right. I had a chance to play most of their guitars a Huml music in the Czech Republic when it was their classic and modern lines, including an all rosewood model. Did not like it. Took home the equivalent of a 00 with cedar/rosewood which I love to this day.

  • @ShadowhandofDune
    @ShadowhandofDune3 ай бұрын

    "Outline dots" inlays- do you mean circles? lol

  • @joshfogel9966
    @joshfogel99663 ай бұрын

    Hi all. Crashing the Furch talk with a Yamaha question. Any thoughts on an FS3 or 5 vs an LS16?

  • @kylenewberry8598
    @kylenewberry85983 ай бұрын

    I think this would be exceptional in an 8 or 9 string dread option

  • @bighes100
    @bighes1003 ай бұрын

    Are these cheap?

  • @1man1guitarletsgo

    @1man1guitarletsgo

    3 ай бұрын

    Once the technical argument is won, price is secondary. These guitars will undoubtedly have their supporters, for whom the price is right.

  • @pepmasters-999

    @pepmasters-999

    3 ай бұрын

    @1man1guitarletsgo A politician's answer. The question was are they cheap. The answer is no.

  • @1man1guitarletsgo

    @1man1guitarletsgo

    3 ай бұрын

    @@pepmasters-999 Thank you. A _salesman's_ argument, actually. To some people these guitars will seem cheap, because they offer something that others don't. Now, if I spent a lot of money buying this guitar and was so satisfied that I never felt the need to buy another, I might end up spending less than someone who kept buying guitars in their search for the perfect instrument. So, while I agree, they're not cheap, purchase price isn't the whole story.

  • @r.a.4777
    @r.a.47773 ай бұрын

    Furch .. just imagine they would write it foorch, okay? Like tool, fool, etc...

  • @halfabee
    @halfabee3 ай бұрын

    Bland, The Guitar has lost the top and bottom.

  • @johnjones-uc3ni
    @johnjones-uc3ni2 ай бұрын

    These rosewood guitars don't have much midrange. Sounds like it would be good for Celtic music but not much else.

  • @billyhuynh6554
    @billyhuynh65543 ай бұрын

    very expensive guitars with all solid rosewood but not really perfect stone

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