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    Default Re: Is There A Grain Of Truth?

    NursingDaBlues, Master of the Pun! Love the thread title.

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    Default Re: Is There A Grain Of Truth?

    Quote Originally Posted by HoGo View Post
    No one mentioned that there can be striking difference of both density and stiffness across one piece of wood. I remember someone cut a guitar top into strips 1" or so wide and measured density and stiffness of each and got quite random numbers... When you measure whole top you get more or less composite (or average) of the numbers but your piece can be denser or stiffer at any of the places (center or edges or somewhere in between...) ...
    If there was enough money in it, someday there might be lab-grown genetically-engineered tone-wood... designed for uniform density & stiffness characteristics across the entire top... there could be different patents for different types of GE tonewood depending on what tonal characteristics seemed more desirable. Or not...

    Or just skip the wood trip altogether and make the durned thing out of some high-tech plastic, top included, and figure out how to make it sound fabulous... has that already been done? Probably not?


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    Default Re: Is There A Grain Of Truth?

    Maybe not entirely relevant to mandos, but banjo heads of the same make and material pretty much sound identical. Remo banjo heads are made of plastic, so very consistent.

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