BenCasteel
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Properly voiced, maple back and sides can very nicely 'colour' the tone, and provide more than suitable bass response.
Fred
What's the scale length on a J-200 Jr - 25 1/2 like the J-200 ?
Ben
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Ben,
My Custom Shop, red spruce-topped, voiced-for-bass response J-200Jr has a very respectable bass presence for a 16" maple guitar. One of the best I've played.
I would strongly suggest you specifically request that they voice it according to your desires, and would also strongly urge that you consider the red spruce upgrade!
Fred
Thanks for quick response Fred, I had planned on the Red / Adirondack - what's your feelings on the Rosewood VS Maple theory, did voiced-for-bass equal Rosewood?
Ben
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Jack, I am about to order a custom J-200 Jr specified basically the same as the one you ordered, but in natural.
So I'll be very interested in hearing your opinion when you receive yours and play it.
The logic here is - I love my L-200, the neck has opened up my abilities to where I can actually play Rev. Gary Davis songs - sort of a dream for me.
However, the bass is lacking on the E string of my L-200. At 5' 7" draping my arm over a J-200 just doesn't work well.
Gibson Montana says that Rosewood is the way to boost the bass on a guitar.
To test that theory I played what I could find around here in Rosewood (Songwriter cutaway,etc. ) . I didn't hear the highs or punch of my little L-200
and neither one encroaches on the indescribable bass of the J-200.
So I have mixed emotions on the Rosewood theory. Realizing of course you can't change physics, maybe we can at least do something and what that might be...hmm.
The 16" bout I think I should be able to handle and if they get the neck right, the woods right and it comes out anything like the others here have described ,
maybe we can do the Rev. proud. Also I would then have a backup guitar when I send the L-200 in for adjustments (like right now for example)
Ben
Any J-200 Jr. history buffs out there?
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Yes, I am. What's the nut width on the 12 string, photos?
Ben