Are Laminated Guitars Bad

Laminate construction enables builders to reduce their material cost streamline the production process and conserve wood resources.

Are laminated guitars bad.

Does having solid sides make a difference to the sound. For example in cutting solid wood panels for acoustic guitars the yield is about four pieces per inch of thickness the typical thickness of a back side panel is about 3 16 of an inch. Are you saying laminate acoustic guitars are not too bad long they have a solid top an have a good braceing on the top an if laminate acoustic guitar have laminate body an have solid top does. Guitars built with solid back sides commence with the admira teresa costing 410 578.

As i said lovely guitar so may be it does. One somewhat surprising and elusive feature of many laminate guitars is cheaper wood is covered up by the outer exposed wood. Admira artista lovely guitar costing 243 342 built with solid sides laminated back. The tone produced with solid wood will also continue to warm up and improve over time so a great sounding solid wood guitar will get even better and even a mediocre sounding solid wood guitar should improve.

Many times these guitars are stained in such a way that an otherwise plain cut of maple or cherry wood for example can be made to look just as. Higher end guitars use solid wood which is not only traditional in guitar making but generally produces a better sound than laminate. September 4 2017 at 10 25 pm.