Re: Same guitar, all mahogany
There are certainly differences between electric guitars when played unplugged. I'm concerned with how an electric sounds in an amp though. It's kinda rare to need to gig unplugged. :P
I've run across the occasional dog of a guitar where there was clearly something off about it - sure. I've never found that to particularly correlated with types of wood though. There's good mahogany, good maple, good rosewood, good ash, good alder, good basswood, good ebony, and even good particle board (danelectro) and plywood (335s). There are also bad examples of each. The brightest guitar I own is a mahogany slab bodied guitar. Does wood matter in a guitar? No, not the type of wood really. And yes, you probably don't want **** wood . . . but I'd place body wood pretty far down there on the list of important stuff on an electric guitar.
I've heard people get great tone out of shovels for christs sake. I don't think they were using 'tone shovels'. Or super concerned about their 650 Hz reproduction. :P
Originally posted by ICTGoober
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I've run across the occasional dog of a guitar where there was clearly something off about it - sure. I've never found that to particularly correlated with types of wood though. There's good mahogany, good maple, good rosewood, good ash, good alder, good basswood, good ebony, and even good particle board (danelectro) and plywood (335s). There are also bad examples of each. The brightest guitar I own is a mahogany slab bodied guitar. Does wood matter in a guitar? No, not the type of wood really. And yes, you probably don't want **** wood . . . but I'd place body wood pretty far down there on the list of important stuff on an electric guitar.
I've heard people get great tone out of shovels for christs sake. I don't think they were using 'tone shovels'. Or super concerned about their 650 Hz reproduction. :P
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