Differences between same model guitars?

[AlexR]

Re: Differences between same model guitars?

Somebody post the photo of the MIM Strat bodies prepared for sunburst, exposing the way they are laminated.

If you mean the one where they have the multi-pieces glued up ready to cut......yes indeed they are made of many pieces. Vintage fender is 3, also 'laminated' as you crudely describe it.

You know, there are many times including these in this thread that you post aggressively as borderline trolling. There is vastly more inaccurate info in your other post than there is accurate. And I have yet to come across any data in any thread that shows that MIM style multipiece is consistently poorer at making a nice balanced tonal instrument than 1,2 or 3 like AM or vintage fender.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Differences between same model guitars?

my friend just bought a current model fender mim strat from zzounds. if i buy the same model will the tone and feel be the same?

it will be pretty similar, but every guitar is different.
question: what is so special about the guitar that you want to replicate it?

 

[uOpt]

Re: Differences between same model guitars?

If you mean the one where they have the multi-pieces glued up ready to cut......yes indeed they are made of many pieces. Vintage fender is 3, also 'laminated' as you crudely describe it.

You know, there are many times including these in this thread that you post aggressively as borderline trolling. There is vastly more inaccurate info in your other post than there is accurate. And I have yet to come across any data in any thread that shows that MIM style multipiece is consistently poorer at making a nice balanced tonal instrument than 1,2 or 3 like AM or vintage fender.

No. I know what "laminated" means and when I say "laminated" it is "laminated".

 

[Securb]

Re: Differences between same model guitars?

My best friend bought an SG Special same year as mine because he loved mine so much. It didn't play anything like mine. Even after I gave the guitar an identical setup you could still hear and feel the difference. His is a keeper it plays and sounds great, mine must have hit the production sweet-spot, it is a monster.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Differences between same model guitars?

Plywood is laminated just the wrong way around.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Differences between same model guitars?

"Laminated" can go left to right or top to bottom. 5-piece necks with walnut stringers, etc? That's laminated.

However, the typical connotation of a body being laminated is taken in the sense of being made of plywood.

Now, plywood is not a true laminate, since it's actually wood chips and glue pressed into a sheet. Solid tonewood veneers laminated to form the thickness of a body is not quite the same as plywood. Tonally, it still sucks, because laminating tonewood veneers does nothing for tone and merely wastes tonewood.

However, that pic of wood uOpt posted looks more like neck and fretboard blank stock, and not laminated body blanks.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Differences between same model guitars?

Now, plywood is not a true laminate, since it's actually wood chips and glue pressed into a sheet. Solid tonewood veneers laminated to form the thickness of a body is not quite the same as plywood.

Here in aus plywood is laminated sheets of solid wood. Particle board or chipboard is wood chips pressed together. AKA ikea furniture.