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Location: Zion, Illinois | Just a few more questions / opinions.
I just picked up my Glen Campbell 12-string for the frist time in about 3 months. It was still in tune!!!
Question 1: It has what I believe a rosewood bridge; shiney and smooth. My 2 best guitars, my Adamas II and Elite 1537 have (my guess) walnut bridges. The rosewood looks and felt SO MUCH BETTER. The walnut bridge seems so darn dry. Why the change?
Question 2: Maple inlays. The abalone/shell inlays are so pretty and shiney and the maple inlays are so darn, plain. Why maple inlays????
TIA
Bradley (resident Pain In The A**) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Some of the early 12s did have rosewood bridges. We had the wood and it's a little stronger for the extra tension of the 12. Got away from it probably so there was only one matl that needed to be bought and so the line would be consistant.
Maple, to do it. Everybody does pearl. Also the maple used to be clear resign impregnated so it would be stronger and keep the color. It started on the Adamas which was grafite and wood. The wood epaulets, maple seemed like the right thing at the time. |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | Thanks cwk2. As much as I love the sound of my Adamas, I really like the ebony fretboard with the pearl inlays and the rosewood bridge on my GC 12-string. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I agree. The SMT adamas had ebony when it came out and some have been done with shell inlay. It's just that so much of the line was shell we wanted something different on the adamas, therefore maple. |
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Just a few more questions