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Newbie-Doo
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Sounds like a type of rock instead of a type of wood. Is this any good for guitars? Or is it the cheapest wood they can get away with?
Just wondering.
Just wondering.
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Newbie-Doo
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This is something I found on the net...
kauri pine
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
The genus Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammar forms a relatively small group of 21 species of evergreen trees in the family Araucariaceae, characteristically with very large trunks and little or no branching for some way up. Young trees are normally quite conical in shape, only upon maturity does the crown become more rounded or irregularly shaped.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis
Pine wood for guitar?
kauri pine
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
The genus Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammar forms a relatively small group of 21 species of evergreen trees in the family Araucariaceae, characteristically with very large trunks and little or no branching for some way up. Young trees are normally quite conical in shape, only upon maturity does the crown become more rounded or irregularly shaped.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis
Pine wood for guitar?
MadAudio
Damned if I do
It's an Australian hardwood and my Silvertone Sovereign Pro is made from it.
bongolation
New member
It works. Most varieties are harder than basswood, I imagine, and basswood is used in all price ranges of instruments.Newbie-Doo said:
Do a search here on this. I'm sure it's been discussed many times.
Agathis is a renewable, cheap Asian wood that's used in a huge number of import guitars and in furniture.
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