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paofab
Posted 2014-07-11 10:35 AM (#489564)
Subject: question on Pacemaker



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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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MWoody
Posted 2014-07-11 12:49 PM (#489570 - in reply to #489564)
Subject: Re: question on Pacemaker



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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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paofab
Posted 2014-07-12 3:31 AM (#489581 - in reply to #489564)
Subject: RE: question on Pacemaker



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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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Old Man Arthur
Posted 2014-07-12 3:47 AM (#489582 - in reply to #489564)
Subject: Re: question on Pacemaker



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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR		It doesn't usually state a "grade"...





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seesquare
Posted 2014-07-12 7:31 AM (#489583 - in reply to #489564)
Subject: Re: question on Pacemaker


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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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marenostrum
Posted 2014-07-12 7:43 AM (#489584 - in reply to #489564)
Subject: Re: question on Pacemaker



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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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paofab
Posted 2014-07-12 3:13 PM (#489587 - in reply to #489564)
Subject: Re: question on Pacemaker



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Location: Italy		It was just my curiosity because I've never read this feature.
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