Excellent idea...I noticed this same "hybrid" grain too, but wasn't sure if my eyes were fooling me.Tone Slinger wrote:I just got through looking at Ed's 'Bare' Franky pic again. I have made a mistake. I took it for granted that it was a center seamed 'BOOKMATCHED' (meaning either a 'V' or an 'A' endgrain ). So I distincly noticed the bottom half and deduced 'A' endgrain/ring orientation. It most certainly WAS a dog, cause it is NEITHER of those......but a hybrid of them. The BOTTOM piece is of the 'A' and the TOP piece is of the 'V' orientation.
I'll post a drawing of approximately what the endgrain join pattern is, also using the 'straight' grain pattern as it appears on either piece to get at the right angle of the rings in either piece.
I think that we're in total agreement again..as usual! As far as my "what if Rockstah got in a time machine and played through Ed's rig" scenario is where we do agree, we're just using some different language. I think Mark might have needed to adjust a bit to Ed's rig, but the same basic sounds would occur. My whole point about gear and fingerings/pick attack just make my overall point...that no guitar player is a god or demi-god...all things that have been played by a human can be played by another human given enough practice and effort. Hendrix was as close to a god as a musician could be, in my opinion, but he was a man.
I just think that far too many people use this mythological thinking that most guitarists use when they put players like Ed, Hendrix, etcetera on a pedestal is just an excuse that people use for not practicing enough and not studying the artist hard enough. And the same goes for mythologizing the gear...humans made the gear and all gear that has ever been created was made by human hands and it wasn't some miracle that can never be reproduced again.
That said, the point at which we stop caring about reproducing another artist's work is the point at which we become truer artists to our own inner selves.
, thats what is really important, cause "Nobody can be somebody else "
). So if you send him a drawing of the 'hybrid' (really its just WRONG 
) endgrain orientation (top half 'V', bottom half 'A'), then he would do it. I havent tried this though, but STILL.....I think that it would be 'inbetween' the overall sonic quality of the Bookmatched center seamed ('V' or 'A'), with the 'V' being superior to the 'A'.
It is hard to describe this stuff, WITHOUT using illustrations. I can go into further detail about this later.
