lacewood????

[Turrican]

There is a drop top on ebay that is made out of lacewood...
never heard of this kind of wood before,any info tom or anyone??
it has beautigul grain !

[killerburst]

Originally posted by Turrican
There is a drop top on ebay that is made out of lacewood...
never heard of this kind of wood before,any info tom or anyone??
it has beautigul grain !

That's actually a Grand Am, not a Drop Top. The body is solid lacewood. I've never played a solid lacewood guitar, but if Tom made it, it probably sounds great. Warmoth says lacewood sounds like alder, for whatever that's worth.

[tom]

we made a limited number of lacewood grand am's. if lacewood is on the light side, like mahogany, it has a big sound, not unlike mahogany but perhaps a little more aggressive top end. the problem was that too much of the available wood was too heavy, which did not sound good.

[mwoeppel]

A friend of mine has one of these - she was telling me the other day how great it sounded.

[mbrown3]

What does lacewood do to the sound, tonally? With maple? With mahogany?