re: Guitar Players Here: What is your favorite guitar to play and why?

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Taks are simply overbuilt. Every element of the guitar is slightly thicker - the soundboard, the sides and back, the neck and especially the fingerboard, even the polyester finish. One may say doesn't that stifle tone and resonance? Not really, if you designed the thicker parts to sound and resonate good from the onset.

A THICKER, HARD slab of rosewood or ebony does wonders for adding resilience to a neck in regard to different string gauges and tunings.

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I know all of this is truth. I just wish it had a spruce top instead of cedar.
On that same line of thinking though, this recent Epiphone that I have acquired, it tunes down well, but doesn't tune "up" ( I know you know what I mean) very well.
I'm studying it, and the headstock is thin. It tapers from about .750 just above the nut, to slightly more than .560 at the very top, and has a lot of inlay.
I know, I said " I would like to know the secret", I really already know it, but I like trying to create discussion on this stuff.
Maybe in this way, we can help the serious players save some time and money.