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Burst of the Month, August 2017...0-7595 What do you call this type of maple figure?

Tom Wittrock

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I was talking to the owner on Saturday and he asked what term is used to describe the type of "flame" in his 60 Burst. Obviously not a plain top, but not stripes and not "flamey" as we usually use this description.

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The best I could come up with was to say, it has "action".
When it is not plain but there is something there, you will see "movement" in the figure as the angle changes. The common 3-D effect of figured maple.

Whatever it is called, it is certainly not plain and it is very beautiful! :jim

:salude
 

fakejake

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Interesting how light the fretboard is. Reminds me more of what I see on many late 60ies Gibsons...
Also, is there something off on the right stoptail stud? Looks really high up.
Beautiful guitar still! :salude
 

El Gringo

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Very nice Tom .Could the bass side look a little like birdseye maple ? The treble side I think I would call it lightly figured maple .
 

Tom Wittrock

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Very nice Tom .Could the bass side look a little like birdseye maple ? The treble side I think I would call it lightly figured maple .

I don't see any birds eyes anywhere on the top.
I have higher resolution photos [that I took in January, 2016]. Unfortunately, they are too much data for my photo hosting site.
One of them can be seen in Burst Believers III on page 164. :)
 

mingus

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Looks like a top with mild figuring to me, Tom. :salude
 

Cody

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When there's action, but the description would fall outside of the different categories of flame, I just call it a "figured burst".

Nice one!

:salude
 

cjp54

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I was thinking the same thing as Charlie for the bass side. Mottled. Maybe even lightly quilted.
Light figure on the treble side.
 
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