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Mapleshade or Butcher Block Acoustics

Needing an amp stand for my Pass XA 30.8 and from what I am reading, maple is the way to go.

So, does anyone have experience between Mapleshade and Butcher Block Acoustics?
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@tonyptony, in my area (Portland, OR) there is Mr. Plywood, who stock and sell 13-ply Baltic Birch in three different size sheets, including the most common 4 x 8 and 5 x 5. Rockler also sells BB, but you don't want to pay shipping, do you? Just Google search Baltic Birch to find a retailer near you who sells it. If you buy from a good lumber yard (as opposed to Home Depot or Lowes), you can have a sheet cut into shelves or platforms of the size you desire.
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A sheet of 19mm 13-ply Baltic Birch in the standard 5’ x 5’ size will cost one less than $100. It may then be cut into shelves of any dimensions desired. Each of the 13 layers is alternated 90 degrees relative to those on either side.
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19mm 13-ply Baltic Birch ply is stiffer and less resonant than a plank of solid or laminated Maple. Some drum companies offer shells fabricated from Birch (most notably the German-made Sonor, the Rolls Royce of drum companies), for a sound somewhat different than the more common alternating-Maple/Gumwood 3/4/5/6-ply shells of other drum companies

The Radio King drums of the 30’s/40’s/50’s (played by Gene Krupa) had solid Maple shells (not plywood), and are very resonant and "woody" sounding (I have two sets of 1950’s Radio Kings). There is one contemporary drum company (Craviotto. John was [R.I.P.] a Santa Cruz-based drummer who was in Neil Young’s band in the 70’s, and one lineup of Moby Grape) making 1-piece, solid Maple shells, and they are very resonant (no glue between plies---there are no plies!).

So ya’ll like the sonority Maple adds to the sound of your systems?

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