Tell me about birdseye maple

[sweet_lou]

How is it tone wise compared to reg. maple. I just got one from MightyMac. Birdseye with a Birdseye finger board very cool looking lots of grain. Anything I need to know about it. I will be putting it on the hardtail I just scored from Fatty.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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No tonal difference from normal maple...just has more eyes

[Jeff_H]

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Yup....just looks prettier. I have a dresser from when I was a small boy that I re-finished for my daughter when she was small. It's built from solid Birdseye Maple, and it's stunning.

[sweet_lou]

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[Norman_T]

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Yup....just looks prettier. I have a dresser from when I was a small boy that I re-finished for my daughter when she was small. It's built from solid Birdseye Maple, and it's stunning.

ever thought about how many guitars that could make?? Might even be a stunner - go on take a saw to it

[y2stevo]

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I just have to say that after playing a few guitars in a store yesterday adn i never appeciated birdseye so much after it..Although those guitars played great they didnt compare to my wolfie, after having it for a while i just cant go back..

[RCM78]

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It sounds the same as rock maple but it's not as stable.
Thats why Peavey put two graphite rods in the wolfgang necks.

[beandip]

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It sounds the same as rock maple but it's not as stable.
Thats why Peavey put two graphite rods in the wolfgang necks.

Only regarding the issue of stiffness, the figure in curly, or flamed, or tiger, or fiddleback maple--whatever you want to call it-comes from the structural fibers of the wood undulating through the wood. Where you see darkness is the end of a fiber cut as it exits the surface of the wood, pointed at your eye. Where you see lightness, you're seeing light reflected from the sides of fibers traveling parallel to your eye, reflecting light like mirrors. If you were to snap a guitar back made of highly flamed maple along a line parallel to the center, you'd see the fibers along the broken edge look like this:
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
a non-figured piece would have the fibers running like this:
-----------------
through the length of the back.
What this means for strength is that a highly figured piece of wood is made of, essentially, bands of endgrain wood, which is, relative to straight grain, weak and not stiff, resulting in less stiffness along the length of the piece.

Whether this matters or not is the subject of debate among violin makers. Some people claim that plain wood, having more theoretical stiffness along its length, makes a better violins. No one really knows, though.

I couldn't find a photo on the web of a split piece, which makes it really obvious what's going on, but I did find this piece of furniture, which is sort of a visual pun on what's going on with the internal structure of the wood used to make the piece http://www.stenderdesign.com/NewFiles/Wave-Goodbye.html

You're Birdseye maple is the same. Although this is only in theory, you shouldnt have any problems what-so-ever with it warping or twisting due to the wood. Now the construction on the other hand is a different story, but remember, even warping happens on $3000 Fender guitars, or the $75 Mighty Mite neck. You never know.


Interesting thought here - We don't want grain runout but we're willing to pay higher prices for a piece of wood that has lots of grain runout, so long as the runout alternates direction a lot.

Hope this helps you bro

[texasguitarslinger]

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Only regarding the issue of stiffness, the figure in curly, or flamed, or tiger, or fiddleback maple--whatever you want to call it-comes from the structural fibers of the wood undulating through the wood. Where you see darkness is the end of a fiber cut as it exits the surface of the wood, pointed at your eye. Where you see lightness, you're seeing light reflected from the sides of fibers traveling parallel to your eye, reflecting light like mirrors. If you were to snap a guitar back made of highly flamed maple along a line parallel to the center, you'd see the fibers along the broken edge look like this:
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
a non-figured piece would have the fibers running like this:
-----------------
through the length of the back.
What this means for strength is that a highly figured piece of wood is made of, essentially, bands of endgrain wood, which is, relative to straight grain, weak and not stiff, resulting in less stiffness along the length of the piece.

Whether this matters or not is the subject of debate among violin makers. Some people claim that plain wood, having more theoretical stiffness along its length, makes a better violins. No one really knows, though.

I couldn't find a photo on the web of a split piece, which makes it really obvious what's going on, but I did find this piece of furniture, which is sort of a visual pun on what's going on with the internal structure of the wood used to make the piece http://www.stenderdesign.com/NewFiles/Wave-Goodbye.html

You're Birdseye maple is the same. Although this is only in theory, you shouldnt have any problems what-so-ever with it warping or twisting due to the wood. Now the construction on the other hand is a different story, but remember, even warping happens on $3000 Fender guitars, or the $75 Mighty Mite neck. You never know.


Interesting thought here - We don't want grain runout but we're willing to pay higher prices for a piece of wood that has lots of grain runout, so long as the runout alternates direction a lot.

Hope this helps you bro

[PUCKBOY99]

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Aside from it looking great, as was already said, sounds just like Maple. EXACTLY what I was gonna do if I got that hard-tail body from Fatty...good luck with that !!!

Jeff H.....put me down for a piece of the top & a drawer front!!!

[sweet_lou]

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Only regarding the issue of stiffness, the figure in curly, or flamed, or tiger, or fiddleback maple--whatever you want to call it-comes from the structural fibers of the wood undulating through the wood. Where you see darkness is the end of a fiber cut as it exits the surface of the wood, pointed at your eye. Where you see lightness, you're seeing light reflected from the sides of fibers traveling parallel to your eye, reflecting light like mirrors. If you were to snap a guitar back made of highly flamed maple along a line parallel to the center, you'd see the fibers along the broken edge look like this:
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
a non-figured piece would have the fibers running like this:
-----------------
through the length of the back.
What this means for strength is that a highly figured piece of wood is made of, essentially, bands of endgrain wood, which is, relative to straight grain, weak and not stiff, resulting in less stiffness along the length of the piece.

Whether this matters or not is the subject of debate among violin makers. Some people claim that plain wood, having more theoretical stiffness along its length, makes a better violins. No one really knows, though.

I couldn't find a photo on the web of a split piece, which makes it really obvious what's going on, but I did find this piece of furniture, which is sort of a visual pun on what's going on with the internal structure of the wood used to make the piece http://www.stenderdesign.com/NewFiles/Wave-Goodbye.html

You're Birdseye maple is the same. Although this is only in theory, you shouldnt have any problems what-so-ever with it warping or twisting due to the wood. Now the construction on the other hand is a different story, but remember, even warping happens on $3000 Fender guitars, or the $75 Mighty Mite neck. You never know.


Interesting thought here - We don't want grain runout but we're willing to pay higher prices for a piece of wood that has lots of grain runout, so long as the runout alternates direction a lot.

Hope this helps you bro

WOW cool info Bean.

Thanks for taking the time

Lou

[beandip]

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WOW cool info Bean.

Thanks for taking the time

Lou

Anytime man.

[beandip]

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So, Lou, how's the neck workin?