I used to hang out on ProjectGuitar.com back in the day. My never ending RG project was, in fact, the first picture of a project guitar uploaded to the PG forums (and then the forum software got hacked or corrupted and had to be re-installed and all was lost and I became a sad panda). I don’t remember Big D Guitars, but I don’t remember a lot of things.
I actually stumbled across Big D Guitars when looking for a sunburst tutorial1. I’m not sure what made me stick around, because I’d found a lot of sunburst tutorials2 but I’m glad I did, because, tap tone videos.
A few months ago TBDGG3 started putting up videos of various woods and explaining his experience with working with them and demonstrating the “tap tone”4 of each wood.
Watched, as I did, one at a time, every day after work, the videos are not that useful. However, watched (more or less) back to back you get a pretty good comparison of what sounds like what in relation to what. So, because I’m a real mensch, the videos as of this point (it’s a lot):