Maple Quilt Back & Side 11 2 Piece Vault the boards are resawn into

the boards are resawn into bookmatched sets and graded into one of three traditional grades:

we only select the upper 60% of tested soundboards for this characteristic

We need a certain size log to capture two consecutive 1’’ cuts from the same block to yield a perfectly bookmatched set

Luthiers can also select sets for soprano

which allows us to capture the wood in areas of the log or board that wouldn’t make a full-size guitar

Maple Quilt Back & Side 11 2 Piece Vault the boards are resawn intoIts rare that we get a maple quilt log at our Mill to work up, let alone one with this kind of outstanding figure. All our Big Leaf maple back and side sets are carefully matched. Photograph of Actual Product.