Player Magazine Q & A (in English)

[Bryan L Williams]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Actually, I have a bit of Euro maple for over 10 years now. I stashed it away till just recently. We sell it as Sycamore (what they often call it in England and Europe) and use it mainly for top and back sets. This is from trees grown in USA but planted from English and Norway seeds 100's of years ago. The wood I have was cut specifically to yield guitar wood. While I have less than enough to make 100 bass top/back sets (estimated), I have the other two species above in stock for a lifetime worth that is 8-20 years old in-stock.

Well...I stand corrected! (Now I know why I did not see it listed in the wood pages...it's been in hiding. ) That sounds like some pretty unique Maple you have there.

If you were going to pair up the Euro-American Maple with one of the two other American species as a core wood, which would you personally choose...and why?

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Bryan L Williams

Well...I stand corrected! (Now I know why I did not see it listed in the wood pages...it's been in hiding. ) That sounds like some pretty unique Maple you have there.

If you were going to pair up the Euro-American Maple with one of the two other American species as a core wood, which would you personally choose...and why?

Easy, not the Euro stuff. It's mostly cut into blocks on the quarter. The top surfaces have more figure showing than the edges do for showing off the figure like the edge of the core would.