Members knnr Posted July 29, 2022 Members Share Posted July 29, 2022 Neck, fretboard, body etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted July 29, 2022 Members Share Posted July 29, 2022 Carvin Bolt. Alder, Ebony fretboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators davie Posted July 29, 2022 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2022 Currently my Fender Strat with rosewood fb and alder body I used to have a thinly-finished swamp ash tele with all maple neck, it probably had the best unplugged sound I heard in an electric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted July 29, 2022 Members Share Posted July 29, 2022 Hundred year old Douglas fir There are a few more of these out there somewhere.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knnr Posted July 30, 2022 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2022 My Kramer Baretta has a maple neck with an Indian rosewood fretboard and what I believe is a maple body. You'd think it would be too bright but it isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted July 30, 2022 Members Share Posted July 30, 2022 Can you say capacitor? My Epi Dot is 100% maple and complies with my demands to sound like Robben Ford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kwakatak Posted July 30, 2022 Members Share Posted July 30, 2022 Torrified Adi over ebony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted July 31, 2022 Members Share Posted July 31, 2022 11 hours ago, kwakatak said: Torrified Adi over ebony. This sounds upside down - unless you play behind your head. Or I'm just dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kwakatak Posted July 31, 2022 Members Share Posted July 31, 2022 6 hours ago, 1001gear said: This sounds upside down - unless you play behind your head. Or I'm just dumb. Torrified Adirondack spruce soundboard, Macassar ebony back and sides. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted July 31, 2022 Members Share Posted July 31, 2022 Ok I'm stupid. Thought it was an electric. Baked neck with ebony fretboard. lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kwakatak Posted August 1, 2022 Members Share Posted August 1, 2022 On 7/31/2022 at 1:04 PM, 1001gear said: Ok I'm stupid. Thought it was an electric. Baked neck with ebony fretboard. lol... My bad. I was subbed to this but followed the link from my notifications and didn’t realize it was in the EG subforum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted August 1, 2022 Members Share Posted August 1, 2022 It REALLY depends on the tone I am shooting for. Classic 70's rock? Gotta have maple over mahogany. (Think Gibson.) 80's pop/shred? Need that basswood. (Ibanez all the way!) Do I need something on the brighter side, with loads of sustain? Maple is the way to go. Want something darker sounding? Mahogany, pure mahogany. (Think SG) Then there is the Hollow and semi hollow sound, and that's laminate maple. (335, 330, guilds, D'Angelico.... et al) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted August 2, 2022 Members Share Posted August 2, 2022 (edited) I only have one electric guitar: a Yamaha Pacifica 112. I have no idea what wood it is made from and don't care because I have much more faith in the properties of the electronics and amplifier. Edited August 2, 2022 by garthman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted August 3, 2022 Members Share Posted August 3, 2022 I also have only one electric. Mahogany body with what is supposed to be a flame maple top, maple neck, rosewood fretboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators davie Posted August 3, 2022 Moderators Share Posted August 3, 2022 15 hours ago, garthman said: I only have one electric guitar: a Yamaha Pacifica 112. I have no idea what wood it is made from and don't care because I have much more faith in the properties of the electronics and amplifier. I played a Pacifica 112 for a few years, afaik most of them have bodies made from alder. They're solid guitars and probably one of the best for its value. They're also perfect guitars for modification because of its universal body routing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted August 3, 2022 Members Share Posted August 3, 2022 17 hours ago, davie said: I played a Pacifica 112 for a few years, afaik most of them have bodies made from alder. They're solid guitars and probably one of the best for its value. They're also perfect guitars for modification because of its universal body routing. Thanks. Yes, I agree that the Pacifica is a very good budget guitar - probably the best - and the HSS pickup configuration is very versatile. But it is those PUs and the amp you play through that counts: the wood that an electric guitar is made from is pretty much just of cosmetic value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted August 4, 2022 Members Share Posted August 4, 2022 My favorite electric is maple and mahogany with laurel fretboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikeo Posted August 4, 2022 Members Share Posted August 4, 2022 I really have no favorite. I like everything, from les paul to sg's es guitars too Ricks And Tele's and Strats. The tons I look for should represent the classic sound of the guitar. I play a lot acoustic to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knnr Posted August 5, 2022 Author Members Share Posted August 5, 2022 On 8/3/2022 at 3:49 PM, garthman said: Thanks. Yes, I agree that the Pacifica is a very good budget guitar - probably the best - and the HSS pickup configuration is very versatile. But it is those PUs and the amp you play through that counts: the wood that an electric guitar is made from is pretty much just of cosmetic value. A guitar is mostly wood. So that is the primary tone generator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted August 5, 2022 Members Share Posted August 5, 2022 5 hours ago, knnr said: A guitar is mostly wood. So that is the primary tone generator. Wood would be the initial tone filter. The strings generate the tone. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted August 5, 2022 Members Share Posted August 5, 2022 12 hours ago, knnr said: A guitar is mostly wood. So that is the primary tone generator. Well that is partly true for an acoustic guitar where the primary sound of the strings passes through the guitar body which vibrates and causes more of the surrounding air molecules to vibrate hence amplifying the sound. In this case the wood of the guitar body can play some part in influencing the tone. However it is not the case for an electric guitar where the amplification of the "sound" of the vibrating string is achieved by the magnetic pickups of the guitar converting the vibration of the string to a small electric current that is then amplified and reconverted to sound by the amplifier and integral speaker. Any vibration of the wood body of the electric guitar is not detected by the pickups which only react to a vibrating ferrous metal. Actually, when you "hear" the sound of an electric guitar what you are really hearing is the sound of a loudspeaker. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators davie Posted August 5, 2022 Moderators Share Posted August 5, 2022 This is a somewhat controversial topic among guitar circles, but here's my take. The wood/material/finish of an electric guitar does have some impact on the sound it ultimately produces. In many cases its subtle, but the difference is there. Strings will vibrate differently because the material will attenuate/accentuate certain frequencies. The body does vibrate too which feedbacks back into the string's vibration. I used to occasionally put my ear up against my electric guitar's body and it could give off a different sound when compared to my friend's guitar, which was the same model but had a different body wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted August 5, 2022 Members Share Posted August 5, 2022 57 minutes ago, davie said: This is a somewhat controversial topic among guitar circles, but here's my take. The wood/material/finish of an electric guitar does have some impact on the sound it ultimately produces. In many cases its subtle, but the difference is there. Strings will vibrate differently because the material will attenuate/accentuate certain frequencies. The body does vibrate too which feedbacks back into the string's vibration. I used to occasionally put my ear up against my electric guitar's body and it could give off a different sound when compared to my friend's guitar, which was the same model but had a different body wood. If you listen to the sound of an electric guitar without it being plugged in, viz. playing it as if it were an acoustic guitar, you will certainly hear some differences between different electric guitars because your ears detect whatever slight influence the wood has on the acoustic sound - and, indeed, that is the main reason that people claim the wood of an electric guitar makes a difference. But a magnetic pickup does not detect those differences because, as I said earlier, they only react to a ferrous metal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted August 6, 2022 Members Share Posted August 6, 2022 18 hours ago, garthman said: If you listen to the sound of an electric guitar without it being plugged in, viz. playing it as if it were an acoustic guitar, you will certainly hear some differences between different electric guitars because your ears detect whatever slight influence the wood has on the acoustic sound - and, indeed, that is the main reason that people claim the wood of an electric guitar makes a difference. But a magnetic pickup does not detect those differences because, as I said earlier, they only react to a ferrous metal. I've always maintained that the pickup shaking along with the wood, filters the transmission of string to pickup. This effect is probably amplified as the stage volume goes up, especially if the guitar is getting blasted by a spread of its resonant frequencies. No one's ever concurred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted August 6, 2022 Members Share Posted August 6, 2022 3 hours ago, 1001gear said: I've always maintained that the pickup shaking along with the wood, filters the transmission of string to pickup. This effect is probably amplified as the stage volume goes up, especially if the guitar is getting blasted by a spread of its resonant frequencies. No one's ever concurred. Yes, I've heard that theory but there is no scientific eveidence for it being so. And, if you think about it, in all the Fender strat and tele guitars - and in all the many similar types of guitar - the pickups are sitting on a sheet of plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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