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

This video shows John Arnold, a professional classical and steel string acoustic guitarist, playing a fingerstyle version of
"Yesterday" on five Wicklund guitars. The first is a birdseye maple OM, the 2nd is a claro walnut OM, the 3rd is a claro walnut Dreadnought, the 4th is an E. I. rosewood Dreadnought, and the 5th is a palo escrito OM. The video clips were synced with high quality audio tracks and combined together into a single song video. An interesting comparison of guitar tone woods.

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Music

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• acoustic guitar
• comparison
• tone woods
• wood
• acoustic
• guitar
• John Arnold
• Wicklund Guitars
• steel-string
• fingerstyle
• fingerpicking
• classical guitarist
• solo guitar
• solo
• ballad
• handmade
• OM
• dreadnought
• claro walnut
• walnut
• rosewood
• palo escrito
• birdseye maple
• maple
• bloodwood
• Carpathian
• spruce
• sitka
• bearclaw
• original
• hymn
• Tis So Sweet
• Yesterday
• Beatles
• Red Rock Recording

[felipeharger]

Amazing! thanks for doing this video!

[WicklundGuitars]

@felipeharger Thanks for watching and the nice comment.

[WicklundGuitars]

Thanks for the nice comment, and thanks for subscribing.

[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.

[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.

[RabiesAngentleman]

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

[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

[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 =))

[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 & 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!!

[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!