Westerly Wood
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It's been theorized that since it's a result of pressure deformation the wood may be a bit denser allowing slightly thinner more resonant tops, but like Sandy said who knows if it's really audible? Maybe a guy like Hoover or Dana Burgeois?
I like the aesthetic appeal too in any case.
And the one I hope to acquire has the most bear claw I have seen on a Sitka top, not that I look for that a lot, but it was striking to me, all that claw. the playability, the ease, the power and bass thump, yet total clarity in upper strings. These have "advanced" scalloped bracing so the sound just pops out and sounds larger even for a dread. I liked that a lot too. A simple C chord sounded like a much larger more complex chord, yet it was only a C chord. Like Neal said above, if the guitar makes my small instrumentals sound larger, then that is an end in itself... I will want to play them more, invest more time in it, and not expend effort where it is not needed just to hear what I want to hear. My fave part of the story was when Nic was watching me with it...
"Well, that is a Woody guitar, it is totally your guitar. Want to just buy it?"
"Can we? I mean, really, cause etc etc....?"
"Let's see"
I will never forget that part of the story...