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drofluf · June 2022

This little beauty just arrived:

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Tannin · June 2022

Oh wow! I'm in love ... with another man's guitar. Faults and all. Yes, even the slotted headstock is something I'm willing to overlook. What a corker!

Mellish · June 2022

Looks handsome. Usual questions: what are the woods? How does it sound?

Happy NGD

drofluf · June 2022

Mellish said:

Looks handsome. Usual questions: what are the woods? How does it sound?

Happy NGD

It's a "standard" Lyn, in as much as any Brook is a standard: 12 fret, slotted headstock, English Walnut back and sides, European spruce top, mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard, bridge and pins.

Son's gone to sit an exam so I managed a quick play; sounds even better that I could have imagined.

Gandalph · June 2022

Oooh that's very nice!

VimFuego · June 2022

wow, v nice. The back looks a bit like the eye of sauron!

Supportact · June 2022

That's really nice.

earwighoney · June 2022

drofluf said:

Mellish said:

Looks handsome. Usual questions: what are the woods? How does it sound?

Happy NGD

It's a "standard" Lyn, in as much as any Brook is a standard: 12 fret, slotted headstock, English Walnut back and sides, European spruce top, mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard, bridge and pins.

Son's gone to sit an exam so I managed a quick play; sounds even better that I could have imagined.

I've played about 6 or 7, Euro Spruce & English Walnut Brooks over the years and IMO, even though they look amazing, but sound even better.

Congrats on your NGD.

bertie · June 2022

lovely - did you go down and pick it up ? I know you were going to.................. TBH that part of the world / M5 is probably best avoided at the moment

TheMadMick · June 2022

You must have had the patience of a saint but it is a lovely looking (and apparently lovely sounding) instrument. How long did you have to wait?

Health to play.

Mellish · June 2022

I was wondering about the wait time too.

But it does look lovely. Do you have fingerpicking in mind or is it also happy to be strummed?

bertie · June 2022

pretty sure I had a 10 month wait for my Tamar.................but that was back in 2007/2008

drofluf · June 2022

bertie said:

lovely - did you go down and pick it up ? I know you were going to.................. TBH that part of the world / M5 is probably best avoided at the moment

No, can't spare the time off work at the moment so they couriered it to me.

P.S. I hadn't forgotten that you needed a guitar taken down

drofluf · June 2022

@TheMadMick, @Mellish Ordered it in late September so about 9 months.

It's really for fingerpicking rather than strumming and will spend most of it's time in DADGAD or Csus2

bertie · June 2022

drofluf said:

bertie said:

lovely - did you go down and pick it up ? I know you were going to.................. TBH that part of the world / M5 is probably best avoided at the moment

No, can't spare the time off work at the moment so they couriered it to me.

P.S. I hadn't forgotten that you needed a guitar taken down

LOL - it wasnt a loaded question, I spoke to Simon about it a few weeks back and hes massively busy so Im going to take it down to Waghorns in Brizzle

drofluf · June 2022

bertie said:

drofluf said:

bertie said:

lovely - did you go down and pick it up ? I know you were going to.................. TBH that part of the world / M5 is probably best avoided at the moment

No, can't spare the time off work at the moment so they couriered it to me.

P.S. I hadn't forgotten that you needed a guitar taken down

LOL - it wasnt a loaded question, I spoke to Simon about it a few weeks back and hes massively busy so Im going to take it down to Waghorns in Brizzle

didn’t think it was loaded but did feel a little guilty as I had sort of promised you. Great that you have an alternative.

Dave_Mc · June 2022

Wow very nice

Kalimna · June 2022

Stunning. When I was down there last, I played Simons' own Lyn (or Lyn-type) in spruce and indian rosewood, Utterly beautiful instruments. Once I have enough in the GAS fund, my 3rd Brook will be one of these

Enjoy!

Soupman · June 2022

Lovely instrument. Stunning back particularly. I realise I'm in the minority, and it's only my opinion, but I have to say that headstock spoils the look.

guitarjack66 · June 2022

Lovely instrument. I assume its a parlour guitar?

bertie · June 2022

guitarjack66 said:

Lovely instrument. I assume its a parlour guitar?

I believe its 00

guitarjack66 · June 2022

bertie said:

guitarjack66 said:

Lovely instrument. I assume its a parlour guitar?

I believe its 00

An ideal size,I think.

bertie · June 2022

if you were closer Id say "come try my parlor" and you'd be surprised at how "not small" it sounds

Ive had others (including a Faith ), and a crappy Crafter OM that sounded "tiny" compared to a well made one.

there's very little in it at the end of the "spectrum" - scale length/fret join can have more of an impact.

drofluf · June 2022

As @bertie said it’s OO so a little larger than a parlour. But pretty much a perfect size for me at least.

bertie · June 2022

how do you find the tone of the walnut ? say in comparison to anything else you have ie mahog/rwood etc

Its a wood that has always aesthetically intrigued me, on its own like yours or mixed with others (cherry for instance) but the lack of "experience" in hearing/trying one

drofluf · June 2022

That’s a hard one as I lack the vocabulary to describe tones and I’m not sure that you’d interpret them the way that I mean

my other acoustic is a Martin OOO15M so all mahogany (ignoring the one that’s spruce/acacia EDIT it’s actually rosewood, they changed the spec, as that’s a 12 string. Both have the same strings and are in the same tuning.

Tonaly I’d say the Brook is more complex, there seems to be more “happening” than with the Martin but I’d need to do a side by side ro properly A-B them.

Dave_Mc · June 2022

bertie said:

if you were closer Id say "come try my parlor" and you'd be surprised at how "not small" it sounds

Ive had others (including a Faith ), and a crappy Crafter OM that sounded "tiny" compared to a well made one.

there's very little in it at the end of the "spectrum" - scale length/fret join can have more of an impact.

Interesting. I kind of feel like I would like a parlour, but I'm not sure about the sound- but the only one I've tried was a Faith Mercury (actually probably a few examples of it in the various ranges they have) which I thought sounded a bit honky/middy. About what price range do you have to go to to get a good one? My feeling was that I should get a cheaper all-solid one (Harley Benton? Recording King?) on the basis that I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but from what you're saying that sounds like entirely the wrong plan!

guitarjack66 · June 2022

bertie said:

if you were closer Id say "come try my parlor" and you'd be surprised at how "not small" it sounds

Ive had others (including a Faith ), and a crappy Crafter OM that sounded "tiny" compared to a well made one.

there's very little in it at the end of the "spectrum" - scale length/fret join can have more of an impact.

I've seen a few Crafter guitars knocking around and thought they were a solid brand,but you hint at them not quite being that good?

bertie · June 2022

Dave_Mc said:

bertie said:

if you were closer Id say "come try my parlor" and you'd be surprised at how "not small" it sounds

Ive had others (including a Faith ), and a crappy Crafter OM that sounded "tiny" compared to a well made one.

there's very little in it at the end of the "spectrum" - scale length/fret join can have more of an impact.

Interesting. I kind of feel like I would like a parlour, but I'm not sure about the sound- but the only one I've tried was a Faith Mercury (actually probably a few examples of it in the various ranges they have) which I thought sounded a bit honky/middy. About what price range do you have to go to to get a good one? My feeling was that I should get a cheaper all-solid one (Harley Benton? Recording King?) on the basis that I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but from what you're saying that sounds like entirely the wrong plan!

the Faith I had, was a Mercury, and compared to the TW73, boxy

FWIW - I avoided the RKs cos of the V neck

Dave_Mc · June 2022

bertie said:

Dave_Mc said:

bertie said:

if you were closer Id say "come try my parlor" and you'd be surprised at how "not small" it sounds

Ive had others (including a Faith ), and a crappy Crafter OM that sounded "tiny" compared to a well made one.

there's very little in it at the end of the "spectrum" - scale length/fret join can have more of an impact.

Interesting. I kind of feel like I would like a parlour, but I'm not sure about the sound- but the only one I've tried was a Faith Mercury (actually probably a few examples of it in the various ranges they have) which I thought sounded a bit honky/middy. About what price range do you have to go to to get a good one? My feeling was that I should get a cheaper all-solid one (Harley Benton? Recording King?) on the basis that I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but from what you're saying that sounds like entirely the wrong plan!

the Faith I had, was a Mercury, and compared to the TW73, boxy

FWIW - I avoided the RKs cos of the V neck

Thanks

The TW73 is a Tanglewood, right? (I literally had to google that, lol, I'm probably betraying my ignorance here!) Boxy is about right regarding the Mercury- it's really short scale, only 24" I think? I wonder if that's anything to do with it (it might not be!).

Not sure about necks, really... I could probably handle a V neck ok, but at the same time I could well be wrong about that!

BillDL · June 2022

That's a really beautiful guitar. Looking at it from a technical viewpoint I notice that the bridge pins are angled so that they follow the angle of the saddle. That's done by somebody that really understands guitars. On most steel strung acoustics the bridge pins are in a straight line, which means that the bass strings are at an acute angle up over the saddle, but the treble strings are at a much shallower angle because the saddle is further away from the bridge pins on that side. By keeping the pins the same distance from the saddle all the way across the bridge gives a consistent breakover angle on the saddle and a better angle on the high E string than is often the case.

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