I fully understand how it works. I just don't care for the look of bookmatched guitars that look like the two sides are completely different pieces of wood. To me, "bookmatched" should look like the description of the word...
I like that top Veltro 205.
For variety sake, mine is a 10-top. Its far from a perfect book match and the growth rings are hard to see in some lighting and they are all over the place, but that's why I dig it because of the randomness of it.
As others have said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Actually, you’re wrong about one thing: Yours IS a perfect book match.
Imagine taking a loaf of bread and slicing off a piece, and then slicing that piece into two pieces, Open the slices like a book, and you’ll see that the bread is not identical on both sides of the “book”.
That’s because of two things:
1. The bread on each side is from a different depth of the loaf. The little bubbles that create the holes in the dough are different on each side, right? That us why there isn’t complete uniformity.
2. On wood, once you slice the piece, and open it like a book, the grain is then going in opposite directions. This causes each side to reflect the light differently.
3. Stain brings out these differences even more.
4. Quilts have more variation according to depth than flames, because they’re more random in most cases (though not always).
Again, once you understand that this is a matter of SLICING the wood like bread, and NOT sawing a piece of wood in two vertically and trying to match the two pieces of wood, and how these variations come about, you’ll be able to look at book matched wood in the correct way.
So yes, yours is perfectly matched. I can show you a pic of my PS 30th Anniversary guitar that is a quilt and it’s matched the same way. Incidentally, I believe that the guitar below was shown on the PRS website when the model was announced, so they chose something that was quite perfectly done. If you look at the lower bout between the strap button and the toggle switch, you’ll see where even though the area between the pickups seems perfectly aligned, there are areas where it seems not to be aligned, yet we know from the areas that line up that it is indeed perfectly aligned. This is what I’m talking about when I say the two depths don’t always seem to match, even when they are perfectly aligned.
Actually, you’re wrong about one thing: Yours IS a perfect book match.
Imagine taking a loaf of bread and slicing off a piece, and then slicing that piece into two pieces, Open the slices like a book, and you’ll see that the bread is not identical on both sides of the “book”.
That’s because of two things:
1. The bread on each side is from a different depth of the loaf. The little bubbles that create the holes in the dough are different on each side, right? That us why there isn’t complete uniformity.
2. On wood, once you slice the piece, and open it like a book, the grain is then going in opposite directions. This causes each side to reflect the light differently.
3. Stain brings out these differences even more.
4. Quilts have more variation according to depth than flames, because they’re more random in most cases (though not always).
Again, once you understand that this is a matter of SLICING the wood like bread, and NOT sawing a piece of wood in two vertically and trying to match the two pieces of wood, and how these variations come about, you’ll be able to look at book matched wood in the correct way.
So yes, yours is perfectly matched. I can show you a pic of my PS 30th Anniversary guitar that is a quilt and it’s matched the same way. Incidentally, I believe that the guitar below was shown on the PRS website when the model was announced, so they chose something that was quite perfectly done. If you look at the lower bout between the strap button and the toggle switch, you’ll see where even though the area between the pickups seems perfectly aligned, there are areas where it seems not to be aligned, yet we know from the areas that line up that it is indeed perfectly aligned. This is what I’m talking about when I say the two depths don’t always seem to match, even when they are perfectly aligned.
Actually, you’re wrong about one thing: Yours IS a perfect book match.
Imagine taking a loaf of bread and slicing off a piece, and then slicing that piece into two pieces, Open the slices like a book, and you’ll see that the bread is not identical on both sides of the “book”.
That’s because of two things:
1. The bread on each side is from a different depth of the loaf. The little bubbles that create the holes in the dough are different on each side, right? That us why there isn’t complete uniformity.
2. On wood, once you slice the piece, and open it like a book, the grain is then going in opposite directions. This causes each side to reflect the light differently.
3. Stain brings out these differences even more.
4. Quilts have more variation according to depth than flames, because they’re more random in most cases (though not always).
Again, once you understand that this is a matter of SLICING the wood like bread, and NOT sawing a piece of wood in two vertically and trying to match the two pieces of wood, and how these variations come about, you’ll be able to look at book matched wood in the correct way.
So yes, yours is perfectly matched. I can show you a pic of my PS 30th Anniversary guitar that is a quilt and it’s matched the same way. Incidentally, I believe that the guitar below was shown on the PRS website when the model was announced, so they chose something that was quite perfectly done. If you look at the lower bout between the strap button and the toggle switch, you’ll see where even though the area between the pickups seems perfectly aligned, there are areas where it seems not to be aligned, yet we know from the areas that line up that it is indeed perfectly aligned. This is what I’m talking about when I say the two depths don’t always seem to match, even when they are perfectly aligned.
Actually, you’re wrong about one thing: Yours IS a perfect book match.
Imagine taking a loaf of bread and slicing off a piece, and then slicing that piece into two pieces, Open the slices like a book, and you’ll see that the bread is not identical on both sides of the “book”.
That’s because of two things:
1. The bread on each side is from a different depth of the loaf. The little bubbles that create the holes in the dough are different on each side, right? That us why there isn’t complete uniformity.
2. On wood, once you slice the piece, and open it like a book, the grain is then going in opposite directions. This causes each side to reflect the light differently.
3. Stain brings out these differences even more.
4. Quilts have more variation according to depth than flames, because they’re more random in most cases (though not always).
Again, once you understand that this is a matter of SLICING the wood like bread, and NOT sawing a piece of wood in two vertically and trying to match the two pieces of wood, and how these variations come about, you’ll be able to look at book matched wood in the correct way.
So yes, yours is perfectly matched. I can show you a pic of my PS 30th Anniversary guitar that is a quilt and it’s matched the same way. Incidentally, I believe that the guitar below was shown on the PRS website when the model was announced, so they chose something that was quite perfectly done. If you look at the lower bout between the strap button and the toggle switch, you’ll see where even though the area between the pickups seems perfectly aligned, there are areas where it seems not to be aligned, yet we know from the areas that line up that it is indeed perfectly aligned. This is what I’m talking about when I say the two depths don’t always seem to match, even when they are perfectly aligned.
Don't be a loaf!
