Guitar tone wood comparison-maple, claro walnut, E.I. rosewood, palo escrito

[ErikWicklund611]

@HornSpeakersRGarbage Why don't you take your own advice and use google before you go spouting off your ignorant troll filth.

On a more relevant note...These guitars are spectacular and John is a Jedi Master.

[jamesjonesrocket]

he could play this stuff on my banged up stagg guitar and it would still sound good lol

[RabiesAngentleman]

@HornSpeakersRGarbage OM is a common model of Martin guitar. it stands for "orchestral model".

[HornSpeakersRGarbage]

@RabiesAngentleman Oh & how many 'orchestras' use Martin guitars, or steel string guitars of ANY design 4 that matter? What a RETARDED marketing ploy =)) Reminds me of attaching the word 'turbo' 2 home audio components & so on. Where is the blower fan?? ROFL!!

[RabiesAngentleman]

@HornSpeakersRGarbage old jazz orchestras featured guitars. banjos, too, early on in the '20s. might be right that the ploy was a little retarded, or at least didn't succeed exactly where they intended it to, since most jazz guitarists (that i know, anyway) seemed to favor those big arch-top guitars.

[HornSpeakersRGarbage]

@RabiesAngentleman Oh, so now your desperate troll retard azz is using inductive fallacy, pretending that because 'once upon a time' some 'group' 100 years ago had an acoustic dreadnought in it. Of course, there is probably not a single example of this in all of history. They used JAZZ guitars - arch tops - not dreadnoughts. Good luck with your trolling. B sure 2 google & find 1 or 2 examples in all of history 2 try & 'prove' that OM is an intuitive label 4 this krap =))

[DarrenForbes]

Gorgeous sounds....beautiful guitars.  Very Inspirational

[RabiesAngentleman]

wow, i was dead set on doing a palo escrito OM for my first build, but the maple OM made my head crane. surprising bass response. where do you get your birdseye?

[cargolot]

THanks =)

[ckesel191]

great vid!

[felipeharger]

Amazing! thanks for doing this video!

[WicklundGuitars]

@felipeharger Thanks for watching and the nice comment.

[slickcross]

Nice. Beautiful song.

[WicklundGuitars]

Thanks for the nice comment, and thanks for subscribing.

[soberkid97]

sweet sounding guitar!

awesome!

:)

[RattenCane]

I'm a fan of rosewood, but here #3 smoked the rest IMO. Perfect sound for a Christmas album. :)

[eeveefan14]

Wow. That maple guitar is amazing.

[WicklundGuitars]

@eeveefan14 Thanks for listening and for the nice comment. That is one of my favorite guitars. I'm currently starting a new run of four guitars -- one is an OM with curly maple B&S with an Englemann spruce top. I hope it comes out sounding as good as the birdseye maple one.

[TechThoughts]

i have made an electric guitar made by walnut and of some reason the sound reminds me of an acoustic guitar no effects added

[DLFimages]

Beautifully done, thank you. I'm currently thinking of buying a Zebrawood Larrivee OM model. What little info is out there compares the Zebrawood to Maple tonally. I can't find any videos with zebra but it is beautiful to look at and if it sounds anywhere near to the maple in this video I am definitely buying it. Any thoughts from you guys out there would be appreciated.

[WicklundGuitars]

@DLFimages I have actually built a Zebrawood guitar, with a sitka spruce top. That was back in 2007, and it is currently in the hands of a recent college graduate. I can't say that I can remember the sound of that guitar versus that maple guitar. I found that the maple was quite surprising to me with respect to its fullness of sound and bass response. I do remember, however, that the Zebrawood guitar sounded great and, as you mentioned, had a very distinctive appearance.

[johnathandk42134]

all great sounding guitars but i really like the maple, the rosewood, and the palo escrito, also im suprised at how much resonation and bass the maple had

great playing btw

[singingfeces]

why does the birdseye have so much more bottom end than everything else? i thought that maple was one of the "brightest" sounding woods.

[WicklundGuitars]

@singingfeces As I said to ran123br, I was surprised at the sound of the maple OM. This was my first build with maple and I was anxiously anticipating what it was going to sound like. I was not disappointed. Expecting an essentially bright sound with good separation in the highs and mids, I found it had a much more depth and richness. John Arnold, the guitarist in the video, also commented on the fullness of the sound.

[singingfeces]

@WicklundGuitars yea its got me wondering what a solid birdseye maple electric would sound like.

[StandardMeasurement]

I like the Palo Escrito.. a Palo search is what landed me on your video. I'm not so much a fan of the lighter color-I tend to like the darker colors visually.. but all the guitars I've heard w/Palo are so responsive. There's a single YT vid of a Fender Ensenada Dreadnaught(Palo B&S).. being played quasi Flamenco style and the voice/tone is amazing. Top Flight job on the comparison here- much appreciated- a thoughtful way to do a tone comparison w/out question.

[ran123br]

incredible , for me , BIRDSEYE is the best , OPEN SOUND ,... , 2) Indian Rosewood , mid range tonal... , 3 ) Walnut , compressed sound...

[WicklundGuitars]

@ran123br Thanks for listening and the nice comment. Personally, I was surprised at the the sound of the birdseye -- expecting a much more brittle, glassy tone. It ended up to possibly be my favorite -- lots of depth and clarity -- although the EI Rosewood is a very close second. Actually I find I like them all -- each has it's own beautiful voice.

[SoftGuitar]

Excellent guitarist and wonderful chord/note melody....The guitar itself sounds remarkable. Quite entertaining....

[EarlLedden]

Warm and sentimental; nicely done.