Actually One that you left out for back and sides that has a great tone falling in between rosewood and mahogany is walnut, In particular is Black Walnut. . Beautiful and sweet but crystalline sound, that is what I would like for my pairing with maybe adiriondack spruce for the top, or maybe western cedar. This is a GREAT tonewood show Thank you!

I absolutely love the tones out of Breedlove's use of Myrtlewood. It's amazing

@acousticvibesmusicinc.531

2 жыл бұрын

agreed!!

@rustyherndon5141

2 жыл бұрын

Ziricote sides and back. Engelman spruce top. Ziricote fretboard. Ziricote bridge. Ebony tuning keys. River Mahogany neck. This ain't no dream!

I was playing in bars at 13 yrs old with my dad. That was 53 years ago. Since I retired from gigging, I've been playing just acoustic guitar for the last 15 years. And learn something new every day. Thanks for all the shows and Cheers!

I agree with your Rosewood assessment. Although they do have different tonal qualities when compared with each other, they're more similar than they are different.

Tony you're truly Inspiring. I forgot how much I love my guitars. Now I've rediscovered them all and added a few more to my guitarsonal.. Love being a guitar geek and unlocking my long lost creative, in my latter age. Thank you.

What about a mahogany top?

DUDE!!!! your son is a stud!! you must be so proud, i’d love to see more and that whole video!!! i see so many famjam opportunities with you and ayden!!!

Thank you for your content and for motivating me to retake my guitar lessons.

Redwood top Cocobolo back snd sides. Love Redwood. Tone between spruce and cedar and does not need to age like spruce. Had a hard guitar built by Tony Karol with these woods. The most incredible guitar I've ever played in my life. I'm 73 and I've been playing since I was 10 years old.

Still watching and enjoying the content after all these years, even though the focus nowadays is on TAC members, not guitar geeks in general. Maybe reaching out far wasn't as successful as focusing on the community you built, but sometimes I just feel like I'm watching from the sidelines. Nonetheless, outstanding job, as always and great to see you back in the studio.

Tony,, you inspire us all to be better players!!

I would not only go with, but I in fact went for my Santa Cruz FS Fingerstyle guitar with a Swiss Alpine Spruce top (from the exact region where I used to sleep in my sleeping bag under the trees in younger years!) and Koa back and sides. An absolute killer guitar both in sound, look and sensitive playabilty - the picture of which was also used by Santa Cruz in advertisments.

I have just about one of everything. Koa is my favorite! 12 string with maple is amazing. They all have a unique voice!

Go Aiden!!!! That was awesome.

redwood top, mahogany back and sides. Every time I blind test guitars I always gravitate toward this sound.

@janeandthecoolcats5033

3 жыл бұрын

Id go for redwood paired with koa ;)

@jacsvihus

3 жыл бұрын

@@janeandthecoolcats5033 I can say I have never seen that combination. Have you ever played one? I just went onto Eddie's Guitars and Matt Chulka demoed a Bourgeois OM 42 with that combo and you are right it has exceptional tonal quality. One more I need to get for my guitarsenal. Good call thanks.

@janeandthecoolcats5033

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacsvihus thats exactly it, i saw that combo on a bourgois also on eddies guitars. It very rare to find. i have a rosewood guitar paired with redwood and it is stunning.

I have a SW OMC Red Birch , that I found on Reverb 3 piece back Red Birch and center of Cherry that I love, tone is unique , the Top is some type of Spruce slight red tone to the natural wood.

Koa,rosewood I saw one,stunning work.i am just looking the artwork,what I love.how time goes by little Aden playing drums.🤪😁 You must be proud of him.i love all the artist you show us.thanks see you next week.👍💡🌟

way to go Ayden.. Tony, I wish I had started playing younger too. I was almost 60 and although I have fun, I can't help but sometimes wonder if I would progress faster if I had some playing in my background.

As you asked, my current favourite is a redwood top with ebony body. The ebony gives a darker, deeper tone than the rosewoods, and although takes longer to open up, gives a lot of push and power. It pairs really well with the redwood.

For me Alpine Spruce top and Solid Pau Ferro back & sides! But My first love was Mahogany

Sweet Billy shirt Tony! Would love to see a follow up on string types that will complement or counterbalance the tone woods.

I have built 3 guitars the last was with Cherry top back and sides very nice tone

Mahogany is my favorite tonewood for acoustic instruments. I seem to prefer midrange heavy tones, which my all mahogany Fender CD-140SCE has for days, which helps with hearing lead lines when playing with others. As for what i would build for a custom guitar , it would be an all mahogany archtop, something like an Epiphone Olympic. Dont know what the top is on those guitars, but i know i love how they sound. I blame David Rawlings for my love of that guitar. Anyway, great show as always, Tony.

Red or Lutz spruce top and cocobolo back and sides

I have a Taylor 514ce which was a 2016 Limited. It has a Western Red Cedar top with Granadillo back and sides. It sounds absolutely amazing. So my ideal guitar, I think I have it. Granadillo is very chimy and sits really well with the warmth of the cedar top.

Okay, my idea of the guitar I would love right now: Cherry back and sides, Red Cedar top, Mahogany neck, bronze frets, mother of pearl inlays, ebony fretboard and saddle with bronze pins. Stainless steel tuner gearwork with bronze tuners. ...oh yeah, and it would need to be half size.

In the late 90s I bought a used guild jf30(spruce top with maple back and sides). I loved that guitar and for years I tended to gravitate towards music that played jumbos. But then I discovered small bodied guitars almost 10 years ago. I discovered a real drawback with my jumbo, it is very boomy if you try to mic it. I'm now looking at 000 sizes in mahogany. Right after harvest this year I'm going to search for something. I have a cheap 00 and it is lovely and gentle, but nothing I would use to perform with. I'm very excited about this fall.

I honestly think I would go with Cedar top & Koa back & sides. I think it would be a real looker as well as an interesting tonal profile. This is Christopher H, TAC member since December 2020.

7:00 My first all solid wood guitar and the best has a California redwood (grown in Australia) top with Australian blackwood back and sides with Spanish heel construction by Cole Clark Guitars of Melbourne, from a US dealer (summer 2021, with thanks for advice from Taylor Guitars, Music Nomad and others in rehydrating it after ten days in ground shipping). The Angel 2EC-RDBL is amazing! Go Griz! 😀 Taylor A12, and a couple Breedlove concerts (Jeff Bridges signature organic B-stock gloss finish, not as warm and open as the satin finish equivalent that I gave my SIL. I'll ask this summer when I get back to Bend what the semi-gloss difference is.)

the Martin OM42 with the swiss spruce Top tones like a piano - wonderful !

Nice summary of the tones, it would have been very helpful if you indicated for each tone wood, which style of playing the wood lent intself to.....flat-picking, finger-picking or strumming. Keep up the good work.

For me it would be african blackwood back and sides fingerboar and bridge, east indian rosewood neck if possible or wenge, and swiss moon spruce top and all that created by Tom Sands(model M with cutaway) ☺️

My Eastman mandolin uses maple back and sides.... amazing tone!!!

Adirondack Spruce and Rosewood!!!

I like the red cedar AAAA top and rosewood back.

I have a 00018 with torrified Swiss spruce top and paired with the mahogany back and sides, rosewood fingerboard and bridge it is one sweet sounding guitar.

Yes, no wonder one of them is cocobolo back on the cover.

KIller Show Tony!

Beautiful looking and sounding tone woods!!!! Mahogany top, bottom and sides, my favorite!!I love the hat!!! Where can I get one?!

Tony thank you, this is amazing and a question I have always pondered. I keep going back and forth to purchase the Fender Telecaster Acoustasonic based on the episode you did featuring it as the acoustic of the future. When you did the review I was on my was to becoming a more impressive guitar geek, but could not justify at my skill level spending $1999+, however since you spotlighted my TAC anniversary in Episode 169, my wife believes I am able and competent enough to play such an instrument. I will wait on the Fender until I save a few more $$, then I hope to have no issue playing and paying the $$. I have taken your advice on most of the guitars I own, the Yamaha FG800, the Taylor GS mini, etc. Sincerely Denni M.

🔵 thanks - güdd review ❕😊 🔵 I've owned most of the tonewood combos i believe (from over sixty acoustics) , and these are my top favorites /(preferences): back and sides: Honduran Mahogany (curly) ; Koa (flame) ; Macassar Ebony (rich variant contrasts) top wood: Redwood (sinker) ; Spruces (Alpine & bearclawed) ; Cedar (Port Orford) ❕💙 🎤🐸

Redwood/Maple should be an interesting combo. Not sure if this was ever built. Looking forward very much to your response to Josh Turner's Nick Drake video.

My D28 1941 Authentic has and Adi top with Madagascar Rosewood back and sides, and it’s an amazing instrument. Rich, warm and powerful. I’d love to have a 12 fret 0 or 00-28 with the same wood or maybe some lovely figured cocobolo for the back and sides. It’s too bad Madagascar has gotten so expensive, it will be just as rare as Brazilian before long.

Drednaught, no cutaway, Figured Tasmanian Blackwood back and sides with Adirondack Spruce top. Curly Maple binding and ebony purfling on body, neck and center stripe on the back. Ebony, Tasmanian Blackwood and Curly Maple rosette.

Hey I was there!

I have a M.J. Franks dread with a German Spruce top and the best E.I. Rosewood back and sides, that German spruce is tied with Sitka for my favorite top wood. I tell ya, check out M.J. Franks guitars. Really enjoyed your video!

Probably would go with Brazilian rose wood back/sides and cedar top👍✌🎼🎸

Proud owner of a Martin 000-13E here 🙋🏻‍♂️ Uncommon tonewood, Siris back and sides - imho I found it to be similar to Koa as a back&sides tonewood. Siris gives you a balanced tone with added clarity on mids and trebles. 000-13E is a Martin made in Mexico and not a "high-end" guitar by any means, but I fell in love with its tonal quality the moment I tried it, and have been liking it more day by day. I like its tone more than a 000-28 :p Wish everyone who're still searching for their "perfect" tonewood good luck and soon finding "the" tonewood that inspires you and speaks to you. Keep trying lots of guitars and you'll find it eventually!

Dream tonewoods would be redwood top and mahogany and sides. I know because I have one ! Lol it's one of my harp guitars

Hey Tony! Loved the episode as always .I agree with your analysis of tone wood's, but I'm curious as to the viability of other back and sides tone wood options such as Walnut, Tasmanian Blackwood, Sapele and Sirius. I have several guitars which most have sitka spruce tops. My Martin D-41 (Sitka Spruce/East Indian Rosewood is my favorite, but my Taylor 322CE 12fret has Mahogany top and Tasmanian back and sides .The first time I played "Hello In There " by John Prine on the Taylor , it made me cry. It sounded so good to me. Then I played it on the D-41. I cried again! Not because I sound good but both guitars sure did! There's no question that solid quality tone woods and craftsmanship throughout the guitar are really beneficial, but if you play a song on a guitar and it makes you cry, that's a good thing.

@duspar1

3 жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you on the Blackwoods. It’s another acacia-family wood like Koa, but with Koa you have a lot of variance of tonality; it’s rarer and pricey for the best sounding sets, and I’ve heard the better Koa examples are often already out there and not waiting to be built. But Blackwoods, wow! I feel like they are generally more musical than most Koas, and with better more plentiful examples. The different densities of it can have the best of the sweet mahogany characteristics as well as some really nice rosewood-like tones, but in a balanced way. Maton, for example, makes an all-Australian Blackwood guitar that, in my opinion, sounds far better than most of the $14,000 all-Koa guitars I’ve heard examples of, and can’t totally replace an all-Mahogany guitar for everything that is, but can cover most of those bases too. 👍

You need to check out the Recording King RD 328, or any of their all solid guitars. I love the sound of my RD 328. And the new Epiphone, Inspired By Gibson, J 200. Man does that guitar sound good too.. and they are adorable.

My custom guitar would have: book-matched quarter-sawn back and sides made from tortoise shell mahogany from the Tree; Apline Swiss spruce top; ebony binding (including the neck); Brazilian rosewood head stock, fingerboard and bridge; a fossilized ivory nut, saddle and pins; D-45 style abalone purfling and fingerboard marking; 5/16" scalloped X-bracing under the top; a modified shallow V neck profile; beveled edges for the arm; a beveled cutaway; and a dovetail neck joint.

Hello there, enjoyed the video, when you are talking about the top and back woods,you are talking about plywood right ? Made of different types of woods you mentioned, right,? Because of the thickness we are talking about here is what , like 3-4 mm???

Ideal tonewoods for me would be Adirondack spruce top (like my Martin OMC-18 Laurence Juber CE) and rosewood back and sides (like my new Zager 900CE), although I love my Gibson J-45 with walnut back & sides and my Art & Luthierre parlor with cherry back and sides.

Red Spruce top Black Walnut back and sides

The soundboard would be Aged Bearclaw Italian Spruce, and the back and sides wood would be Honduran Rosewood or Macassar Ebony

Cedar or maple top. Rosewood back. Koa sides.. I want it all!

Guatemalan rosewood back and sides, and a swiss high altitude top, thats it!

dream guitar: sinker redwood/african blackwood (rosewood) in a fan-fret multi-scale

i remember a redwood cocobolo bourgeois Ds12 that was crazy good sounding at eddie's

I own a guitar made by Amaury's guitars from Belize. The sides and back are ziricote. Spruce top. It truly kicks ass. In my opinion it is superior even to Brazilian Rosewood. And the grain is amazing. Give Amaury's a look and consider ziricote. Killer tone and a lot of punch

Your son is an excellent drummer! Does he play guitar as well?

Western Red Cedar top and African Padauk back and sides.

That’s funny I’m from oshawa one as well nice too meet ya lol

Kirk Hammett is sporting a mighty fine pair of Vans. Gotta get a pair of those.

Premium brazilian rosewood (in Brasil we call them Jacarandá (rosewood) Imperial) back and sides and italian spruce top on OM standard shape, to be onest this will be my next guitar, a custom builder here in Brasil is making it

00 size: Alpine spruce (doesn't matter, if it's Swiss, Italian or Austrian) and Black Walnut back and sides.

Guitar from lowden. Sinker Redwood top, Ziricote back.

I’ve ordered a Crowder Guitar with Torrified Adirondack top with Monkey Pod ( RAINTREE ) back and sides. This is supposed to be a D18 style guitar but not sure if the back and side wood was a good selection for this. Debating on changing back to mahogany before the build starts. Have you experienced Monkey pod?

My Custom Build would be an OM, with Adirondack Spruce top and Wild Grain East Indian Rosewood back & sides. Oh wait, that’s my Martin Custom Shop OM-28, and she’s all I could ever ask for. My Larrivee OM-40R is amazing, but the OM-28 is head and shoulders above all others.

Redwood and rosewood too or solid engelmann and rosewood

cedar top, brasilian rosewood back and sides, maple neck.

Moon spruce and african blackwood!!

Well. Adirondack spruce with Pennsylvanian ash back and sides may be ideal. At least, It would be a great guitar in mix (as it can have some dryness in its sound) and it would still have a saturated sound in terms of fundamentals

Taylor still does have the 514 with a western red cedar top.

Blackwood with lutz spruce top.

Always wanted a guitar made out of olivewood

Tight grain Sitka Spruce is the best top panel wood.

Boucher Bluegrass Goose guitar or Thompson guitar Ziricote b & s torrified adirondack maple binding abalone purfling around top with Celtic inlays

My Taylor Koa has some pretty nice tones.

@jackiet4575

3 жыл бұрын

My Taylor Koa is my absolute favorite!!

Love the tones of a cedar top; but you can't play rough with it ⚠️❗

If the budget would not be a limit, I would certainly make every single model as a collection and then models with different shapes and then for the rest of my life change and try all those strings for each of them :D

Would love it if you dedicated an episode to Bert jansch.

Cherry plum - rosewood Cedar - mahogany or cherry

Adirondack top and bracing with cocobolo back an sides and Koa binding

redwood top, Macassar Ebony back and sides *_* , 5 piece neck, African ebony fretboard and bridge, Nubone saddle and nut, snakewood bindings all around, abalone purfling and rossette design(mixed with wood), abalone fret engraves, 40" grand concert body with a sharp cutaway.... : |

Deep body 00 12 fret slot head,Adirondack top, walnut back and sides pyramid ebony bridge. Please forward it to me in the UK ASAP. Many thanks.

Does quilting affect the tone? I have a Martin D-18 with a quilted sitka top, and I think it is a bit warmer than others I've heard.

What wood the top would be and what would the back and sides wood be?

Cocobolo and Adirondack; beauty and brawn ...

I have one of those TAYLOR cedar top.

@texhaines9957

3 жыл бұрын

Already have a sinker redwood w EI Rosewood guitar. Really like Madagascar Rosewood back and sides, Ziricotte fretboard and bridge, maybe Engelmann Spruce (or torrified red spruce) top, large sound hole 000 body, short scale 12 fret thinner neck profile (modified low oval, or Taylor-esque neck

I would build a guitar with a European Spruce top and a Rosewood back and sides

Tony=Acoustic guitar.

Tunnel 13 redwood /the tree

Koa top, back and sides.

Swiss moon spruce, "the tree" mahogany

Top wood I prefer to Sitka/cedar and redwood; back & sides I prefer to rosewood/mahogany and Koa 🎉Hence, I think the high quality wood is Larrivee guitars

swiss spruce and cocobolo

Hey why haven’t you bought another Larrivee l-03 to replace it

I remember Mark Knopfler saying, " gee they look pretty but do they play any good " !!