Bookmatched Guitar Wood

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Bookmatched Guitar Wood

Unread post by Taylor614 » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:16 pm

I was flipping through a 4 year old Martin catalog that I have and it says that the D-16GT has "bookmatched" mahogany. What does bookmatched mean? I've seen this term before, but never knew what it meant. I always thought it was a fancy name for laminate. Hopefully someone can help me out.
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Unread post by mangold » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:42 pm

bokmatched means that both halves of the top or back are cut from the same piece of wood so the grain of the wood is symetrical across the backstrip or topline
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Unread post by Taylor614 » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:14 pm

Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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Unread post by sfmartins » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:35 am

mangold wrote:bokmatched means that both halves of the top or back are cut from the same piece of wood so the grain of the wood is symetrical across the backstrip or topline
Hell, you know a lot about guitars! :)
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Unread post by mangold » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:57 am

sfmartins wrote:
mangold wrote:bokmatched means that both halves of the top or back are cut from the same piece of wood so the grain of the wood is symetrical across the backstrip or topline
Hell, you know a lot about guitars! :)
its sad really
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