rockabilly69 Posted April 4, 2013 Posted April 4, 2013 That is flame not quilt for sure! And even that PRS looks like a little of both! The rounder figures in the red guitar spell out QUILT!
AP515 Posted April 5, 2013 Posted April 5, 2013 Is quilted maple and flame maple the same thing except for the pattern of the 3D effect? Or does quilted maple only come from a diseased portion of a maple tree while flame maple can come from any part of a healthy maple tree? I'm certainly no expert, but as I understand it, both flame and quilt come from healthy maple trees. About 1 in a few hundred have high quality flame. The way I heard it was if maples are growing in a densly populated area of trees and then one falls opening up the others to more light, the faster growth causes the flame. I don't know what makes it quilt vs. flame. Spalted maple comes from a desease. Some kind of fungus that enters the tree.
schundog Posted April 5, 2013 Posted April 5, 2013 That thing is beautiful. I really dig it; Congratulations! Rock it out, man.
SouthpawGuy Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 Very very nice, love the trans black finish. Congrats ! fwiw my 157 still has stock Schallers, I've had a set of Seth Lovers ready for it since I got it but the Schallers are just fine, no need to change them.
skydog Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 For your reading pleasures: http://www.timbretone.com/MysteryofFiguredMaple.html I particularly liked this part as there is no mention of guitar tops (I know they were primarily thinking acoustics): Flame maple, also known as curly, fiddleback or tiger stripe, is an undulating iridescent pattern of wavy lines or "flames." From the time of Stradivarius to the present day, this "moving," three-dimensional pattern has been prized for the backs, sides and necks of musical instruments such as guitars and violins.
SouthpawGuy Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 btw it looks more like quilted than flamed maple to me, it has a bit of both going on though, very distinctive.
HANGAR18 Posted April 10, 2013 Author Posted April 10, 2013 fwiw my 157 still has stock Schallers, I've had a set of Seth Lovers ready for it since I got it but the Schallers are just fine, no need to change them. I was very pleasantly surprised how good the Schallers sounded once I finally got around to plugging it in. I too may very well just leave them in there
bigsbytp Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 I'm with you smurph, Schallers are good pickups Schallers are fine in the right guitar. I have an EAGLE CLASSIC and an H-550 with them. All part of having different guitars for different sounds.
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