Bookmatched Guitar Wood

Taylor614 · 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.

mangold · 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

Taylor614 · Post by **Taylor614** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:14 pm

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

sfmartins · 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!

mangold · 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