Members billybilly Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Let's say for a body, to make it more specific. Me? Mahogany. I'm just pulled to a warmer sounding guitar, every time. Doesn't matter if it's a Les Paul, Tele, Strat... I love my mahogany. What about you? What do you like and what don't you like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Another tone wood thread? Seems like there's one a month and they all wind up being the same with people arguing whether wood type matters. Maybe we could skip the tone arguments and just go for how it looks this time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 1.Korina2.Mahogany3.Swamp Ash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted February 18, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 18, 2016 Swamp ash, entirely subjective, I just happen to like Strats, and never heard a Strat I liked made out of anything but ash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Ash bubbles. Pick and the tone appears like a bubble. You can coax that out to varying degrees from all kinds of Strats I suppose, but blonde swamp ash models seem to be zoned for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 I'll always gravitate to something mahogany and a maple top. My Les Paul - mahogany with a maple top. My Carvin CT4C - mahogany with a maple top. My B.C. Rich Warlock - mahogany with a maple top. Notice a trend? Yeah... It's just a beautiful thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted February 18, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Make your own thread or contribute... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted February 18, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 I really want to try a Korina guitar, been meaning to for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted February 18, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 It is nice in a strat for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 It depends on the guitar.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wankdeplank Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 I'm partial to alder for Strats and straight mahogany for hums. But I have all types and enjoy all types. Currently without any basswood and swamp ash. I've had three guitars made of swamp ash and they were all amazing in the sound department - just a few niggling complaints in other areas, hence no longer with me. May never find another one I can afford though as swamp ash seems to be going through the roof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Plywood, you want to discuss favorite layering glues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Plywood, you want to discuss favorite layering glues? Toneglue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted February 18, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Originally posted by Chordite View Post Plywood, you want to discuss favorite layering glues? Toneglue? You jest but traditionalists like hide glue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 My favorite semi hollow guitar at the moment is made of antique woods. Solid walnut top, Rosewood back and maple sides. I had a guy offer me $1200 for it and turned him down. I'll never be able to build another like it and have it sound the same. Finding 200 year old Walnut and Rosewood like that just isn't going to happen for me. When wood gets that old its dam near petrified. I burnt a Dremil out completely just cutting the pickup holes. Most of that was just burning through the wood because the router bits went dull so quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted February 18, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Walnut's another I'd like to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Its a hard dense wood, harder then Mahogany. Its is easily chipped like ebony. Its tone is much brighter then you'd think. It produces both a deep bass tones, bright upper mids and snappy highs. It doesn't do as well with the lower mids compared to maple or mahogany so its not everyone's cup of tea. Using a tele neck was a wise choice for me. Beautiful wood though. It was always one of my favorites for looks. George Harrison used a walnut Tele. His slide tones were unique because of that. Mind has a good deal of those same kinds of tones, but its also a semi so its a bit thinner sounding wood wise. The mini HB's provide enough beef however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 My Mustang is made of poplar. My Epi Les Paul Custom is several pieces of mahogany with a maple top. They both sound great to me. I'd love to hear a maple strat. Rickenbackers are usually all maple, and they sound twangy with a little more girth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Wood that has been graded as AAAA for tone by a master. Species is unimportant to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted February 19, 2016 Members Share Posted February 19, 2016 I'm a wood slut. I want it to be drop dead gorgeous. Test - how many of them can you identify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbengs1 Posted February 19, 2016 Members Share Posted February 19, 2016 Actually the wood doesnt seem to matter especially with lots of distortion and lots of midrange and treble in the EQ. But if i had to settle for one particular wood for 1 guitar it would be alder. It's very versatile. i like the alder body, maple neck paired with a rosewood fretboard sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted February 19, 2016 Members Share Posted February 19, 2016 Plywood, you want to discuss favorite layering glues? Works pretty good actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted February 19, 2016 Members Share Posted February 19, 2016 ^^^ I have a short scale Gretch bass with a plywood body. It sounds terrific compared to many other solid bodies. The neck is solid however and the neck accounts for 50% of the string vibration, at least till you get to the highest frets where the neck connects to the body. The quality of the plywood does matter allot. The stuff used for building instruments isn't the same stuff you'd use for building houses which is loaded with air gaps and inconsistent grains/layers. Plywood is graded just like other woods. The stuff used for musical instruments will likely have a high quality laminated veneer exteriors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted February 19, 2016 Members Share Posted February 19, 2016 Hickory and Mesquite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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