What does plywood sound like?

[elsupermanny14]

What are its tone characteristics? What does this kind of wood make guitars sound like? What are the properties of plywood? Are there any good plywood guitars?

 

Yeah I pretty much want to know everything and anything you guys can let me know about plywood.

[Snambo]

It sounds like a bargain.

[dimmypage]

[tele62]

I've never sat down and listened to it for long enough to make an informed judgement, sorry.

[Athiest_Peace]

I have a plywood strat-o-bastard, and suprisingly, it sounds like a stratocaster. Of course, i did do ALOT of modding to it, so much that basically, the plywood body is the onlything left of the original guitar. I'll hafta do a thrread over its evolution one of these days with pics and showinh the changes it went thru, from a $45 ebay special, to the #2 she has become.

[67mike]

Like the SG copies that Sears sold in the 80's:facepalm:

[Daveydude]

It sounds like a bargain.

 

 

hahahahaha!

[dimmypage]

Plywood can be made of many many many many many---on and on and on types of wood, and made different ways ---Which way are you talking about:poke:

[thrashmetl]

Danelectro's

[Artslinger]

Danelectro's

 

 

Masonite & Plywood

[bek1]

My plywood, ultra-cheap Squier Bullet hardtail Strat is the best-sounding Strat I've owned, and that includes a 69 and an Ultra. It sounded good just with the Deaf-Eddie Fat-O-Caster and master-tone mod. Now it sounds even better with a VintageVibe low-output SSH setup. Deaf-Eddie customized a superswitch for me, and it has a tone on the neck and one on the bridge bucker. A local semipro just played it and thought it was fabulous, too. I'm sure plywood can be bad, but it sure doesn't have to be. As to what it "sounds like," what does anything sound like? I've heard really different results from all kinds of woods. As for this one, it nails most of the classic Strat tones I think of -- SRV, Jimi, EC/Derek, Knopfler -- plus some no normal Strat will give (due to the bucker and switching).

[docjeffrey]

This $2000 Gibson is made of plywood and it sounds fantastic.



So is this $2000 Gretsch:

[Ferdinandstrat]

I got a plywood P Bass copy, with new strings and wiring it should sound very well.

 

And if I run it through a bass amp.

[elsupermanny14]

I have a plywood strat-o-bastard, and suprisingly, it sounds like a stratocaster. Of course, i did do ALOT of modding to it, so much that basically, the plywood body is the onlything left of the original guitar. I'll hafta do a thrread over its evolution one of these days with pics and showinh the changes it went thru, from a $45 ebay special, to the #2 she has become.

 

 

Please make a thread about it! But can you tell me more about your Strat build? Parts, upgrades, etc.?

[Dann-O]

Plywood sounds like a choir of angels getting kicked in the junk.

[DaleH]

Depends what you hit with it.

[dimmypage]

This $2000 Gibson is made of plywood and it sounds fantastic. So is this $2000 Gretsch:

The correct term is Maple Laminates:rolleyes:

[chord777]

Plywood sounds cold and bright. It doesn't have much warmth or bottom.

[jrockbridge]

One of my guitars has a Hondo plywood body. That plywood plank smears the pickup sound. The result is tone which has less clarity, less definition, and reduced sustain.

[samuraiBSD]

It sounds like any other wood, so long as you stick some EMGs in it

[Ferdinandstrat]

One of my guitars has a Hondo plywood body. That plywood plank smears the pickup sound. The result is tone which has less clarity, less definition, and reduced sustain.

 

 

Lets say we take a few thin stripes of mahagony, maple and a few other quality woods and sandwich them together, would it affect the tone for the better?

[whitegreyblack]

Sounds like a wood sandwich.

[Thinkarogadum]

 

Sounds good to me.

[tumbleweeed]

It sounds like a laminated tree falling in the woods. Man some questions defy all logic and reason

[larry50]

Danelectro. Plywood and masonite.