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RONDO MUSIC COM
http://www.rondomusic.com/
About The Company:
http://www.rondomusic.com/team.htm
Rondo Music is an American owned and operated family business, founded in 1959. Rondo Music sells a variety of musical instruments including electric guitars, power amps, PA, keyboards, recording gear, and DJ equipment. While we sell 1000s of items from 100s of manufacturers, our primary on line focus is SX Guitars, Agile Guitars, Douglas Guitars, Valencia Guitars, Brice Basses, CNB Cases, Drummer's Design and Century Drums.
Johnson Guitars
(Nice quality - great LP style ones too ! )
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GUITAR FETISH COM
http://www.guitarfetish.com/
Guitarfetish.com is an internet exclusive guitar store specializing in; GFS guitar pickups, Xaviere electric guitars, guitar parts, electronics, necks, bodies, ...
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Palmer Guitars USA
http://www.palmerguitarsusa.com/
Palmer Guitars Company makes classic, acoustic, dreadnought , electric guitars & basses since 1985.
Based in Miami, USA.
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Gallagher Guitars
http://www.gallagherguitar.com/
Welcome to Gallagher Guitar’s home on the Web! Feel free to browse our site to get the latest news and information about these LEGENDARY heirloom quality instruments.
bil mitchell guitars
|luthier|guitar maker|hand crafted
http://www.bilmitchell.com/
The first Bil Mitchell guitar was born in 1979. That very first guitar began a life long exercise
in education, consistancy, expression, and refinement.
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Guitar Parts USA
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Guitar Parts Online
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Guitar Parts Central
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GuitarElectronics.com
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Free Guitar Wiring Diagram Archive & Resources
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Difference Day Makes..... (horrified that original is not available)
USA... Referencing to my first Les Paul Custom Black Beauty Triple Pick Up Gold Hardware circa 1977-8, seems someone tended to re-write history or simply new encyclopedias are updated. When I got this most beautiful Gibson Les Paul Custom, it felt like it weighed 20 to 30 pounds on the shoulder. In those days a leather guitar strap was padded for good reason. When I used to practice lead riffs for hours and hours a day (general work out) I had to fold up a bath towel and place it under the strap. I mean without that, it felt like the strap would slice your neck, but was somewhat painful after the first half or full hour of play. Obviously it was top woods of the day and now many are protected because of "over harvesting". The point here is if someone is telling you some Gibson is genuine mahogany and is not around 20 pounds, well....
The fretboard was genuine Gaboon Ebony, which is so black it about has a blue sheen glow - "Jet Black Ebony". Now "genuine" ebony is the hardest wood in the world at about 93 pounds per cubic foot. The Gaboon Ebony, best, was from Africa. India, I believe, had just as hard ebony wood and had some greenish stripe through it. Ebony is so rock hard thick - it is as slippery as playing like greased lightening on ice. You do not see the veins in it and is ever so slightly visible porous (like hair follicles on skin - pores) and slightly wide.
About the next hardest wood of those days was indeed Mahogany ( "genuine" ) pounds per cubic foot from India, and also I believe from Africa then. Now back then, The Mahogany from India was loosely called "Iron Mahogany" as "Lignum Vitaet" the hardest but has changed to the term iron woods for others. Now, that's not what we see today in encyclopedias and I read all there was to back when I got this guitar - realizing it's quality and value which today easily sells for between actually 5 to 255 thousand dollars. This was lost from me during the 1980s great recession.
Another point is that the wood closest to the center of the tree is primary - heartwood. Cheaper cuts indeed will show the branch holes - from outer wood cuts and will dry out faster than the primary cut and are lesser tonal quality wood. So today, there has been an explosion of fantastic wood finds along with some intentional harvesting to produce in part wood called "True Mahogany" that is just somewhat lighter but nevertheless as close to Genuine Mahogany as you can get as they call it today. You need make a decision as to whether you wish a quality wood guitar will last up to 10 years or more - or whether you want one that will last up to 30 years or more which would be as the top priced Gibson Les Pauls. Today fantastically arrayed are the many choices exploded across markets with the various wood choices and thanks also to what they call Nato Woods, which very loosely, was supposed to describe all the newer Indonesian hard woods - but is an actual specific wood I believe that is most basswood-like. Basswood weighs almost as much as a mahogany but has nowhere near the tonal quality of mahogany, laughably not nearly, and may sound just a bit like a "cardboard-ish" sound in the bassier notes. They are good for a practice work out piece and actually I have heard some that actually have their own sound including a hollow or semi hollow f-hole guitar believe it or not. Actually adding a pedal effect can do the same as having quality wood and quality pick ups at a fraction of the cost obviously. Music is always experimentation to find the sound you want.
I dubbed my Les Paul Custom the "French Violin". The combination of the ebony fretboard and mahogany body for the electric guitar is the only top combination for reproducing electric guitar as the highest tonal quality and actual electric amplification ability. It is an entire personal setting of action and pick up coils individually to each player as no such thing as "one size fits all". It is quite individual even with factors of your own strength as to how much weight you can lift. Can you bench press 200 pounds ? Then your "stretchy" of the strings will be much greater as like a 40 to 80 pound bow pull. As well, your fingering the notes across the fret bars is depressed harder. The lowest action with greatest electrical amplification of each note up and down all scales as best tonal quality is the winning set action for each player and is generally a complete hit and miss trial and error affair until found. The better your proficiency and song library - the better your ear is and action completely fine tuned for maximum tonal quality and amplification of the electric guitar no matter what the brand. An action set too low looses volume drastically - electric and acoustic guitars. An action set too high is harder to finger and play (especially bar chords and volume gets lost) - taking greater strength and speed is lost drastically in proficiency of play. Ultimately it depends on the sound you want.
We move to classic F-Hole Jazz Guitars (also for blues) with the traditional correct movable jazz bridge and tailpiece. The lowest action set is also played in the traditional F-Hole guitar with that movable chord stretching - not note stretching per se, but the entire chords. It is a looseness desired completely by those who are indeed proficient guitar players - especially jazz. The famous Gibson SG Electric is no doubt that hard body version of the deep bodied jazz F-Hole famous guitars. (I have owned and played these too). The big deep wide bodied ones were always in the Big Bands of the Swing Era and evolved from there.
The next hardest wood - original Brazilian Rosewood was always best and, as well, Indian rosewood. When considering an electronic several band equalizer to balance sound - Rosewood exactly is completely balanced for guitar, especially and specifically for acoustic/folk guitars. As wood, Rosewood amplifies treble and bass notes and tones loudest (except for loudest - mahogany but which looses some mid-tones) without distortion or dissipation and the magic of Rosewood is the mid-tones. It is the ONLY wood that amplifies the mid-tones perfectly without distortion or dissipation. If someone suggested an equalizer to a rosewood guitar player - they would laugh at your amateurishness. Now the wood veins of rosewood are very congruent and evenly spaced apart and the real genuine mahogany of the day were tighter (closer together) than Rosewood. Both somewhat porous to sight. Although 'rain forest' and over harvesting factors for restricted genuine Brazilian Rosewood (best) - the explosion of new discovered forests and intentional new harvesting has yielded high quality Rosewood today so that it is still possible to get high quality Rosewood guitars - either Acoustic or Electric. Maple and Ash are next and most tasty.
All considered, in getting back into things here, I have discovered the vast new wood markets and prosperity not only in musical instruments - but as well obviously for these new precious woods for quality luxurious long lasting furniture and other uses. Quality in wood too was almost hunted to extinction. Surprise ! A great horizon in trade around the world !
Ebony
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony#Striped_Ebony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony
Diospyros crassiflora
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"Gaboon Ebony" redirects here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros_crassiflora
Mahogany (Genuine and True)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany
The name mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored hardwood. It is a native American word originally used for the wood of the species Swietenia mahagoni, known as West Indian or Cuban mahogany.
The term "genuine mahogany" applies to only the Swietenia mahoganies, wherever grown. The term "true mahogany" applies to any timber commercially called "mahogany" with or without qualification that is derived from the Meliaceae family. In addition to Swietenia mahoganies this applies also to Khaya (African Mahogany) and Toona (Chinese Mahogany) which are both from the Meliacae (Mahogany) family.
Lignum vitae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_vitae
Specific Gravity Of Wood Table
http://www.csgnetwork.com/specificgravwdtable.html
