Hi,
after reading around on this forum for a while its now time for my first post. I'm Lars Rasmussen and i'm currently in a three year lutheriecoarse at carl malmsten school in stockholm, sweden. The school is just great, spending the first year and a half building our way through the instrument history of the guitar, and final year and a half experimenting, going to practice in some estblished luthiers shop, taking the journeymansletter and finaly recieving a b.sc. in guitarmaking.
This winter I'll be building an archtop guitar in the style of d'aquisto solo, I have come over a really beautiful set of european maple, and now i'm looking for a matching top. Im thinking engelmann, or maybe if i can come over a nice set, european spruce would match the more yellowish tone of the maple.
So, I'm in the hunt for suppliers. I've looked at timbretone in canada, but they are out of higher grades at the moment. Do you have any tips of smaller or bigger suppliers that carry tops in good quality?
Pardon if my english isnt correct everywhere, but i hope you get my message
