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True Historic Tops - Eastern Maple?

ONEHERO

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Here's my Darkburst: western or eastern? The flame is tight, I don't see the pores...
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And now CherryBurst: looks eastern I guess?
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I'm simply trying to learn :dang
 

Big Al

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Here's some Western:

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And just to confuse you...



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My 2016 R9... which looks as Western as John Wayne, Will Bill, and Roy Rogers. So... :spabout

I don't know about that. Most don't look like Big Leaf Maple too me. Of coarse it would be best to look in hand, but still I see a lot of Eastern Maple in some of these guitars. The Quilt Top is obviously a Big Leaf top, but I see Rock Maple in some of these.
 

Big Al

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Here's my Darkburst: western or eastern? The flame is tight, I don't see the pores...
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And now CherryBurst: looks eastern I guess?
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I'm simply trying to learn :dang

ONEHERO, the bottom looks Eastern in the pick. The top one could be Western Big Leaf Maple, but I have seen some quarter sawn Rock and Red Maple, (Eastern), with a similar look. There are several in the BOTB book and a bunch in the 58 section iirc. If you get a very strong flash of reflective light and rippling movement when you roll the guitar it would suggest E Maple. All I can saw about that top one is, I'm not sure and I'm pretty sure about the bottom one.

I love strong color and am a freak about Wacky Tobacky and you have a very nice sampling from that gene pool, brother!
 

ONEHERO

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ONEHERO, the bottom looks Eastern in the pick. The top one could be Western Big Leaf Maple, but I have seen some quarter sawn Rock and Red Maple, (Eastern), with a similar look. There are several in the BOTB book and a bunch in the 58 section iirc. If you get a very strong flash of reflective light and rippling movement when you roll the guitar it would suggest E Maple. All I can saw about that top one is, I'm not sure and I'm pretty sure about the bottom one.

I love strong color and am a freak about Wacky Tobacky and you have a very nice sampling from that gene pool, brother!


Many thanks for your insight! Very appreciated
 

67SLP

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I don't know about that. Most don't look like Big Leaf Maple too me. Of coarse it would be best to look in hand, but still I see a lot of Eastern Maple in some of these guitars. The Quilt Top is obviously a Big Leaf top, but I see Rock Maple in some of these.

I hear you. The first, 5th, and 7th pics look like WM for sure to me. But the pinstripe flame can go either way unless you look at them in person. These aren't mine... I was just reposting these pics found elsewhere here on the forum, and going by what their owners claimed. The appearance of strong crossgrain pattern, and mineral streaks are usually what I look for to tell if it is EM.
 

ONEHERO

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Ok so I got the confirmation from Gibson that my Darkburst is indeed Eastern maple (hard) but quartersawn. They confirmed that ***ALL*** True Historics are hard rock e-maple unless it was specified in m2m to have quilt

So now that it's done - I still don't know what to do with my dark burst...it's a lot of money to sit on for a guitar that is only added to my collection :worm​
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67SLP

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Ok so I got the confirmation from Gibson that my Darkburst is indeed Eastern maple (hard) but quartersawn. They confirmed that ***ALL*** True Historics are hard rock e-maple unless it was specified in m2m to have quilt

So now that it's done - I still don't know what to do with my dark burst...it's a lot of money to sit on for a guitar that is only added to my collection :worm​
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That is what I heard as well (posted above). Especially considering the large lots of raw maple they have to buy.

:salude
 
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