Well, it's more of a wood question than that it relates to ukulele building, but I thought the knowledge about that could be best found in the luthiers forum...
I've always thought that laminate is just laminate... some mass produced sandwich with a nice photoprint of your wood of choice. So, a 'laminate koa' is just a birch-laminate with a koa print, a 'laminate mango' is just a birch-laminatie with a mango print, etc... I know that there are a few different types of laminate other than birch, but I assumed that cheap and ready available birch is just the way to go for mass produced instruments (I really don't know where I get that idea form, probably just common sence). Therefor I've never taken the descriptions in the specs very seriously, based on the experience that most laminates sound more or less the same and that the differences can be found in differences in construction, strings etc.
But lately I started to doubt that, for I A/B-ed two laminate tenors of the same brand that sounded completely different...
Can anyone enlighten me? How seriously can I take those specs...?
I've always thought that laminate is just laminate... some mass produced sandwich with a nice photoprint of your wood of choice. So, a 'laminate koa' is just a birch-laminate with a koa print, a 'laminate mango' is just a birch-laminatie with a mango print, etc... I know that there are a few different types of laminate other than birch, but I assumed that cheap and ready available birch is just the way to go for mass produced instruments (I really don't know where I get that idea form, probably just common sence). Therefor I've never taken the descriptions in the specs very seriously, based on the experience that most laminates sound more or less the same and that the differences can be found in differences in construction, strings etc.
But lately I started to doubt that, for I A/B-ed two laminate tenors of the same brand that sounded completely different...
Can anyone enlighten me? How seriously can I take those specs...?
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