my plywood project

[jeffreyyong]

During a recent trip to some guitar factory in China, I brought back a few pieces of laminated spruce and cedar aka plywood or triple top. These plywood was destined for those $50 mass produced guitars. I thought it was fun to make something out of it and at the same time telling them don't simply waste wood as our trees are going less by the minutes.
Here are 2 samples and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPWgCUx ... e=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKzUkD-Q ... e=youtu.be

[ernie]

Vy nice jeffrey. I just purchased an old giannini CL gtr for $40. There is a definite need for an "all weather guitar" that one can take anywhere without worrying.

[johnparchem]

Looks great!

[ernie]

They both sound good with the edge for the 2 nd spruce/meranti on volume

[charangohabsburg]

Nicely done Jeffrey!

The classical guitar my parents bought me when I was nine years old also has a plywood top. It's sound never bothered me, it is good enough for a low-cost guitar (at that time it was about 300$, today the almost same model costs 150$). But its playability was a complete disaster until I finally fixed it a few years ago.

In my opinion the beautiful, often even aesthetically perfect outer veneer of those laminated tops for cheap guitars is a horrible waste of good wood if those factory instruments are hardly playable. In my opinion, an opaque lacquer over less than perfect wood, with a printed on spruce grain pattern would be the better ecological and resource preserving approach for producing those 50$ - 300$ guitars.