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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I know acer is the species and then the good one for necks is the sugar maple, acer saccharum, from the north east united states. It's a heavy bright sounding tone wood and can be visually, very appealing.
I can't say I've seen many guitars made out of sycamore. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Shame on me! Having trained in biology I should have known better than to use common names in an international context!!
I'm fairly sure I'm referring to Acer pseudoplatanus (the source of my username). The wood is very white, not very grainy and quite hard. Mighy make a nice fretboard. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Sycamore" here in the States is "Platanus occidentalis"
London Plane is "Platanus acerfolia" |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | For what we call the London Shade tree, the signature element is the bark shedding. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | I always can recognize "sycamores", out here, by their rather odious odor. "Maples" are, essentally, odor-free. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by an4340:
For what we call the London Shade tree, the signature element is the bark shedding. London Plane and Sycamore (American Planetree) look nearly identical and share that shedded bark and mottled appearance. Easiest way to tell the difference is Sycamore has "fuzzy" fruit that hangs individually- and London Plane has "smoother" fruit that hangs in groups of two or three. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I had heard that the "sycamore" we have in the states is actually a hybrid. Is that true? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Anybody ever try to plug a sycamore for sap in the spring? I have cousins who still operate maple sugar houses in New England. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I tap the Big Leaf or Oregon Maple, acer macrophyllum. More sap than the Sugar Maple, lower sugar, and a slightly more complex flavour. Plus, it's down the street.
After I'm done making syrup this year I'm using the sap to make wine if there's enough flow.
Don't know what it's like for tone wood....hardly makes a whimper when I tap it. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by an4340:
I had heard that the "sycamore" we have in the states is actually a hybrid. Is that true? i know it's native but, not weather if it's a hybrid. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Sycamore" guitars |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Absolutely Gorgeous Jeff!
Wow! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Ovation made two from the famous sycamore tree in Simsbury, the one that's on the quarter.
It lost a branch and it's in the Farmington watershed area and Frank was/is active in that Community association and somehow the wood wound up at the factory. |
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Location: Tennessee | Details here: http://www.ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=news&art=458 |
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Location: New Hampsha | Anyone know what happened to the guitar? It was supposedly auctioned; did one of the OFC get it? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Hmmm....the article accounts for one instrument. Where's the other one? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Also have (available now) a beautiful piece of Bolivian Rosewood/Pao Ferro suitable for OM size back and sides...
Photo to follow....
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | OK so here's my order...
maple top, single rosewood epi, deep bowl, ebony fingerboard, op pro studio with 'roland ready' undersaddle pickup thingy, neck profile like the ...
wait a sec, I'm gonna have to custom order. I reckon I'm worth it! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Sporting wood. . .
'nuff said. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Yup, another guitar player with his feet in the photo... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "scale" |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "ruler"? |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | no, lizard |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The Maple is Seasoning. . . |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | I thought we were making guitars. Curing hams, too? Probably no hope for this bunch. |
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