PRE-WAR ADIRONDACK RED SPRUCE - Amazing Picea rubens from The Hampton Brothers - INCREDIBLE tonewood

[@AcousticGuitarIO]

Love these Tommy's Tonewoods episodes! You've inspired me to get my Kim Walker out its case for an airing.

[@TomSandsGuitars]

cheers cams!

[@amymccarty5098]

That’s for sure master grade almost looks like master carpathian great find we love your channel

[@TomSandsGuitars]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@kevingreene6893]

Adi is known for its richness and dynamic tone - I do hear those metallic shimmers but overall there is quite a range of tone with sustain and presence. I reckon that piece of tonewood will have quite a bit of headroom and some nice note clarity. There is evidence of that brightness, which Adi is known for, and it does look like a nice, fresh and clean set, which will no doubt make a lovely guitar top. Interestingly - it is more difficult to describe the tonal qualities from the tap-tone exercise compared to the cedar... and even more-so with the Madagascar or Cocobolo - so on that basis, you have to wonder just how much of an influence the back and sides actually has on the final tonal qualities of a finished guitar... let the conversation develop... K.

[@kinsellt]

What do I hear when you tap the Adirondack spruce you ask? There’s a little bit of snare drum from Mr. Melville‘s band from when I was playing in the Saint Margaret Mary’s junior band. It’s a fleeting memory of the drum line behind me; I was a very bad first trombone. You can tell when you tap the wood it’s going to make a drum.

[@PotPoet]

When you tap a sound board wood sample, you do it so YOU can hear it. Could you please do the same thing with the board facing the microphone so WE can hear it?

[@TomSandsGuitars]

The board is equidistant from my ear and the lav mic clipped to my apron. Try listening with headphones 🎧 👍

[@PotPoet]

@@TomSandsGuitars OK. Thanks for the quick reply.

[@n79692868]

I found some 30 year old Honduras Rosewood what should I do with the 15 board feet of it?

[@TomSandsGuitars]

Cut it into guitar sets and kindly ship to me.

[@n79692868]

@TomSandsGuitars is there any real Worth to it I mean other than putting them into guitar sets like even at a guitar set is it worth is it worth anything

[@n79692868]

@TomSandsGuitars and what would be the difference if it was Honduran or Bolivian

[@n79692868]

Do you have an email that you could send me so I could send you some pictures

[@TomSandsGuitars]

@ it’s possibly one of the less desirable rosewoods in the market currently, but with the declining availability of Madagascar rosewood and Brazilian, I’d consider it a ‘sleeper’. Depending on the material you have 15bf maybe yield 15 sets. It depends how you define worth but I’d say there’s value there.

[@bloxa]

super nice! but the luthiers I've talked to in Europe say that grain space are not important when it comes to sound? they claim it's a misconception. That goes at least for the alpine spruce.

[@el34glo59]

It's definitely a misconception. Especially with Adirondack

[@natemink572]

@@el34glo59 Amen. I have a handful of adi topped guitars and the two that sound the best are so irregular that Martin would throw them away lol

[@amymccarty5098]

We have a good bit of old growth red her in wv

[@TomSandsGuitars]

I love it!

[@paulboden7850]

That's some nice spruce. Is it torrefied? The tap tone would be different natural state vs. baked? At times I feel like Adirondack has too much horsepower!

[@amymccarty5098]

I agree out of the gate it’s a bit overpowering but once it settles in look out

[@TomSandsGuitars]

No just very dense and quite oxidised. yep, gotta handle adi with care, its a beast!

[@naiman4535]

I am the proud owner of a folk Dreadnought guitar with a soundboard of Adirondack Spruce. In my opinion, it is clearly superior to Sitka Spruce - its tone is so much deeper, richer and more robust. Sitka Spruce's tone is clear and tansparent, but it's kind of wimpy.

[@TomSandsGuitars]

Interesting! Perhaps I should compare them in a video