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• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  February 20 Posts: 6,260

  This one will definitely turn some heads, simply gorgeous!
• neebs4964 Maui, HINew Rodrigo Shopis

  February 23 Posts: 29

  Oh My! If I didn't already own 2 of his guitars I would buy this one!

  
  

  Steve

  
• pdg ✭✭

  February 23 Posts: 642

  Three guitars would be perfect!

  
• swiessler NorCalNew Dupont MD20,Gibson L5,Bumgarner F hole(DiMauro type)

  February 23 Posts: 80

  What a lovely instrument!
• Gouch FennarioNew ALD Originale D, Zentech Proto, ‘50 D28

  February 24 Posts: 155

  Who’s played a redwood top Django guitar? What did you think of it?
• pdg ✭✭

  February 24 Posts: 642

  It really depends on the particular piece of wood. From building guitars, redwood can be among the best, and sort of like cedar. (It was some of my best top wood.) But you can have better or worse pieces of any type of wood. You could ask Rodrigo how his redwood guitar(s) sound compared to spruce or cedar.

  
• voutoreenie New

  February 24 edited February 24 Posts: 363

  Pretty sure Holo's built a few guitars with redwood tops...would be surprised if Dunn, Park and/or any other North American luthier hasn't at some point too

  
• flaco ✭ 2023 Holo Traditional, Shelley Park #151, AJL Quiet and Portable

  February 24 Posts: 283

  My Holo is redwood. I’m guessing it sounds similar to cedar.
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  February 24 edited February 24 Posts: 6,260

  generally a cedar top guitar sounds like a well aged instrument from day one. Super responsive, alive, and reverberant with lots of “wow” factor. Pretty much anyone who comes here to try new guitars walks away with a cedar topped one as a new spruce guitar sounds very closed up by comparison. Of course, spruce will gain those qualities overtime but you have to be patient. Also, spruce and cedar have some key differences with cedar being simpler in tone whereas spruce has more complexity.

  I’ve never noticed a big difference between cedar and redwood, they both seem to have that mature quality right away.

  
• littlemark New

  February 25 Posts: 512

  Why isnt cedar used all the time?