Solid Spruce
Solid Spruce or Solid Cedar Top?
I found an electric-acoustic guitar I really like, but there are 2 versions of it, one with a Solid Spruce top and one with a Solid Cedar Top. They are both exactly the same price and when I played them I cannot tell the difference. Which one should I buy and why? If you would like to know, I like rock.
Cedar tops are said to give a dark, warmer, mellower sound good for fingerpicking or folk music, while spruce tops often tend to be clearer, “punchier”, and brighter sounding, better for aggressive rhythm strumming and flatpicking. So that suggests to me that you’d be happier with a spruce top for rock playing. Even if you can’t tell the difference now, as you play the guitar over time, the tone of the guitar will change and open up as the top gets “played in”.
But there are different varieties of spruce, each of which has its own distinctive tonal qualities. If you know what kind of spruce is being used, you can get a better sense of how the guitar will sound after its been played in for a while: http://www.dreamguitars.com/tonewoods.htm
Making the solid spruce outer rim
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