Guitar archtop Curly Maple Back and Sides No. 1103, AAA Grade

235.00€

Weight: 5 kg

Wood Cut In Year: 2024

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Aditional Information

Please check the second image to see the end grain of the back.

This set can be used for a 17 inches archtop guitar.

The back is composed of two bookmatched, quartersawn halves. Each half is minimum 23″ x 9″ (600 mm x 230 mm) and tapers from approximately 0.43″ to 1.25″ at the joint edge (11 mm to 35 mm) thickness.

The sides are each one 35″x 4”x 0,15″ ( 890 x 110 x 4 mm )

Botanical name: Acer pseudoplatanus

Common name: Curly maple, fiddleback maple, tiger maple, flamed maple, rippled maple

Average Dried Weight: 38 lbs/ft³(615 kg/m³)

Specific Gravity (Basic, 12% MC):.48, .62

Janka Hardness: 1,050 lb_f (4,680 N)

Modulus of Rupture: 14,220 lb_f/in²(98.1 MPa)

Elastic Modulus: 1,438,000 lb_f/in²(9.92 GPa)

Crushing Strength: 7,980 lb_f/in²(55.0 MPa)

Shrinkage: Radial: 4.5%, Tangential: 7.8%,

Volumetric: 12.3%, T/R Ratio: 1.7

Harvested in Carpathian Mountains