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What causes the flame in maple?

Grog

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garywright said:
w/flamed mahogany being one of the coolest
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Old post, but reminded me of an EB-0 I had & sold a few years back. I've seen 3 of these now & they were all basses. I'm assuming that the figuring was undesirable at the time & they used the wood on basses.

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Blackjack30

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As a kid in the 60's & 70's i saw figured wood in gun stocks, furniture & some musical instruments like violins but not too many guitars.
In the 80's the figured woods in guitars really took off.
Love me some good flame maple on a Les Paul.
 
Ed Driscoll

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Blackjack30 said:
As a kid in the 60's & 70's i saw figured wood in gun stocks, furniture & some musical instruments like violins but not too many guitars. In the 80's the figured woods in guitars really took off. Love me some good flame maple on a Les Paul.
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In the heyday of hollowbody jazz guitars, wasn't it traditional for the flamed wood to be on the guitars' backs, ala violins? I remember reading that a few guitarists were a bit confused initially, when the flame-top Les Pauls first started rolling out in 1958.

(Speaking of which, great looking axe in your photo. :yah)
 
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Ed Driscoll said:
In the heyday of hollowbody jazz guitars, wasn't it traditional for the flamed wood to be on the guitars' backs, ala violins? I remember reading that a few guitarists were a bit confused initially, when the flame-top Les Pauls first started rolling out in 1958.

(Speaking of which, great looking axe in your photo. :yah)
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Yes thats true about the figured backs of Jazz types. Only thing for me was most semi hollow i saw as a kid were painted guitars & not sunbursts. I remember the first time i saw a Tobacco burst Les Paul i was instantly & forever star-struck.
Same thing with Joe Walsh, Gary Richwrath, Jimmy Page & many others they were the genesis of my weakness for Gibson guitars.
 
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