The Best Wood, Part 2

Federico Sheppard: Do you ever use cedar tops? Antonio Marin: Yes, but only two or three per year. This is a spruce town. From an interview with the great Granada guitar maker, Antonio Marin, American Lutherie #117 A young man visited my studio the other day to chose a guitar from my inventory, he was looking to replace the Asturias brand guitar that he is currently playing. His two complaints about the Asturias were the string length (656mm) and the neck is too thick and rounded. Spruce/Walnut Guitar I handed him a spruce/walnut guitar (photo above) with a scale length of 650mm. He loved the neck and the string length, but I noticed right away that he was struggling to get a good sound out of it. Spruce/California Laurel guitar, Torres/Santos Model So, I pulled out one of my latest guitars, the one based upon Antonio Torres's guitar FE 19, which is loud, has an amazing voice and capable of many nuances and again, as he played this guitar I noticed that he did