I have been fixing up my guitars over the past week. Polishing frets, setting action. Getting them ready for the long winter.
On all of my electrics, I had removed the backplate and truss rod cover, because those were things I needed to access while setting up the guitars, and I didn't see a practical reason to keep them on.
I've been playing them the past... ten(?) years or so this way. I realized that if I didn't locate the plates and all the tiny screws, I may never.
So I put them all back together.
One of the guitars in particular, my #2 s540 actually sounds a good bit more resonant with the plate on. I haven't A/B tested all the guitars, but I'm certain that the backplate on that one makes that guitar project acoustically better. These are solid backplates, not the kind with adjustment slots.
I mean, this actually makes sense, doesn't it? A chamber in a guitar could be built into the wood, or it could be a trem rout covered with a thick piece of plastic. More interesting is that this particular chamber houses the bridge and all its vibrating mechanicals.
Food for thought.
On all of my electrics, I had removed the backplate and truss rod cover, because those were things I needed to access while setting up the guitars, and I didn't see a practical reason to keep them on.
I've been playing them the past... ten(?) years or so this way. I realized that if I didn't locate the plates and all the tiny screws, I may never.
So I put them all back together.
One of the guitars in particular, my #2 s540 actually sounds a good bit more resonant with the plate on. I haven't A/B tested all the guitars, but I'm certain that the backplate on that one makes that guitar project acoustically better. These are solid backplates, not the kind with adjustment slots.
I mean, this actually makes sense, doesn't it? A chamber in a guitar could be built into the wood, or it could be a trem rout covered with a thick piece of plastic. More interesting is that this particular chamber houses the bridge and all its vibrating mechanicals.
Food for thought.
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