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Location: Seattle | My 1992 1117 has a wide grain top. Significantly wider than that of the 1975 Artist (or any other Ovation I own).
Besides the obvious visual difference
Is there a structural difference affecting the guitar...(meaning strength, stability, etc)?
This is more curiosity than anything.
I am sure there are many things that go into the grading of the wood.
Edited by kentrookie 2018-05-20 8:48 AM
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Location: Texas | A topic as diverse as what strings sound the best. I think you will find no true guide...I found that in the end...it is a sum of all the parts, when building a guitar, and it is hard to separate the grains part in it all.
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Location: Muenster/Germany | You can hardly see the quality of a guitar top from the grain. My relatively cheap Takamine jumbo guitar has an extreme fine grained top, my horribly expensive Martin D 45 guitar not. I have 3 hand-built guitars for which I choose the top wood myself, and all three have, I would say, avarage grain but these tops sounded amazing when I tapped them, like a floor tile..
Cedar tops very often have very fine structures, and Adirondack spruce sometimes looks "cheap".
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Grain Width and top stability