How Top Woods Are Graded

A Grade Sikta? A+…AAA? What do these letters tell you? We're demystifying top wood grading today on Alvarez TV to give you more tools to choose your new favorite guitar. We have two guitars in today's episode, both solid top Sitka Dreadnoughts…very similar, but also very much not the same. Why do we use different Sitka for different models? And what are those differences? We're discussing how top wood is graded on today's episode. Jump to… 0:00 Driving Song (Intro Jam) 1:30 Sitka, Silking, and Cut on the Quarter: Hold On, We're Getting Technical 5:44 AD30 vs. AD60: Here's What's Different 8:42 Structural Integrity & Tone 13:36 Demo: AD30 14:14 Demo: AD60 Dee is playing an Artist AD30: https://alvarezguitars.com/guitar/ad30. Chris is playing an Artist AD60: https://alvarezguitars.com/guitar/ad60. • Follow Alvarez • Facebook:   / alvarezguitars   Instagram:   / alvarez_guitar   Twitter:   / alvarezguitar   #Guitar #AlvarezGuitars #AlvarezTV #AcousticGuitar