Okay new acoustic guitar idea - Has it been tried???

[Jammer54]

Been checking on wood types and if not Spruce, how about sinker wood for the top?

Martin just made a run of seventy five guitars from sinker mahogany.

According to the story this was Honduran mahogany that had been under water in a river in Belize for over 100 years.

The model is, CS D18-12. It is a 12 fret, slot head, Ditson style dread.

Some owners report it's a thunderous, fantastic sound.

Michigan and a few northern states are also places for sinkers. Logging companies shutdown and left the wood to sink.

 

[cupric]

Howard Hughes would have liked this idea!

 

[jeffcoop]

I've long wondered if a guitar could be made from my dining room table, which is mahogany over 100 years old. I suspect that it's laminated (as in, multi-layered), but I suspect that there are individual layers thick enough for a guitar back, sides, and top. Not that I'm actually planning to do this, mind--this is the dining room table at which I ate when I was a kid. But I can't help but wonder.

 

[West R Lee]

It is a resin coated material that is fairly strong and scratch resistant so possibly could be used to fabricate bracing??

So resistant to scratching that we (in my mechanical technician days) used to use it in the plates in compressor valves in high heat applications way back in the very early 80s, so it's been around for a very long time. Micarta can be made of just about anything, including cork, fabric, paper, graphite, whatever, all molded together with plastic resin. Several guitar manufacturers use it in nuts and saddles, but I've always been a bit skeptical of it's "sonic" qualities. My reasoning being that I've always wondered how well cork or fiber can transfer vibration? But that may just be the guitar traditionalist in me. Bracing? Who knows, but why not, they make graphite guitars these days.

West

 

[davismanLV]

Micarta is a brand name for composites of linen, canvas, paper, fiberglass, carbon fiber, or other fabric in a thermosetting plastic.

And that's not a bad thing. Don't get crazy. If you're not happy then BONE UP!! Okay??

 

[davismanLV]

It's funny how things work out. My neighbor John is a seriously crafty guy and he works in his garage right next to us all the time. He customizes bicycles and all kinds of things. His weird kid has a saddle of his grandpa's that just sits there. There's stuff everywhere and he has a pull-down staircase to the attic of his garage where he stores bikes and other stuff. So when I was trying to create some room I have this gigantic sheet of mahogany that's an inch thick, all laminated together to form the sheet. I mean, next to each other, not layered. So, I asked him if he wanted it and he did. He makes some furniture for his vacay house up north. So I said, "It's yours!!" thinking it would be gone from my garage. He's still trying to find room for it. So, instead of making room, I'm storing a huge plank of mahogany that doesn't even belong to me any more. I think I'm doing something wrong......