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Location: Italy | I've just bought a Pacemaker (1615) from 1981. Anyone of you know which wood grade has been used for the top of this fantastic guitar? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | It is Sitka Spruce from the Upper Left Corner of the Americas. Congrats! |
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Location: Italy | Ok. I know it's a sitka spruce top, but it's A-grade, AA-grade or AAA-grade? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | It doesn't usually state a "grade"...
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | The designation of "A", versus "AAA", is not always a guarantee of tone quality, but of grain pattern & "figure". The real issue is how it has been treated in the past 40 years!
I would venture a guess, based on the 3 Pacemakers to pass through my collection, the tops have been rated at "AA". Now, the Pacemaker I had The MotherShip reconstruct, that was easily a "AAAA" piece of wood. Tight grain, nice figure, & very resonant, across the tone spectrum. |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | It is funny that in every catalog of the era all guitars pictured they have given a graded top but not the GC and Pacemaker ones where only "spruce" is indicated. Just saying.... however I agreed with seesquere. |
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Location: Italy | It was just my curiosity because I've never read this feature. |
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