Atypical top wood?
A lot of tradition goes into Mandolin building it seems. Today I am wondering about top woods that aren’t used or perhaps I should say woods generally not used for too wood. I have seen guitars with all kinds of different top woods to include Cherry Black, Walnut, which I found odd and didn’t get to hear so O don’t know how successful they were.
What other than normal woods have people used with success as top woods? Other than Spruces, RedWoods and Cedars? Would Cherry work how about something odd like CottonWood which I believe is a soft hardwood and part of the poplar family. How about lindens which I think are also called basswood? Just curious.
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