What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

[treedroppings]

Re: What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

Ash and maple. Just get a nice humbucker on it! I like PAF style buckers, but there's DiMarzio Super Distortion and Seymour's Custom or Distortion.

[Francois]

Re: What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

You can do metal with Mahogany, Alder and Ash...
And with the high gain hiding something, Basswood become acceptable.

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

I LMAO!!!!

You used "tonewood" and "metal" in the same sentence!!

Wait a minute............what kind of a joke is this?!!

You may want to look out your front window... I believe there are kids who need chased off your lawn, or perhaps a cloud that needs yelled at.

[Securb]

Re: What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

Oak and Beechwood are the only metal tonewoods.

[kramersteen]

Re: What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

I don't know Bruce i have the feeling LLL loves the wood.

[beaubrummels]

Re: What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

So Les Paul had the right idea after all with the railroad track guitar body. So much nonsense could have been avoided by sticking with the original design.

[Lovegun]

Re: What Is The Best Tonewood For Metal (Metallica)?

Oak and Beechwood are the only metal tonewoods.

So the advice to starting metal guitarists is