Ok, the issue with this best tonewood thread is that you have not drank enough coo-laid yet. SO, I will share the perfect ultimate holy grail spec guitar with you:
Guitar scale length: 24 3/4. Everyone knows that you need a Gibson scale length to achieve the ultimate tone, with that being said the body shape MUST be a les paul style with a double cut away because you NEED to be able to get your thumb around the neck at all positions on the fretboard.
Next, we don't use mahogany for the neck and body. no no, it's not holy enough, we use LIMBA! It's Mahogany +, so it's the best. As for neck body construction? Neck-through. It's the only way. forget everything else. To kick it up a notch we will join the body to the neck with carbon fiber splines for ULTIMATE TONE TRANSFERENCE.
Since we have a Limba body, we need not one, not two, but THREE tone-woods to make it better, we will use a Walnut as an accent layer [that's hollowed out] to give it some PUNCH and Flamed-to-death Koa as the main top to give it it's mid-range and sweetness and at the very core will use paulownia to take weight off and add resonance (thank you Gil Yaron).
The neck will not be a one piece neck. no no no. We need ultimate tone, so we will go the mayones route. The neck will feature multiple woods, this is how it will work
Limba - goncalo alves strip/pau ferro spline/goncalo alves strip - Limba - wenge strip/Pernambuco spline/wenge strip goncalo alves strip/pau ferro spline/goncalo alves strip - Limba
(spline is thicker than strip) We will have carbon fiber rods in the neck to make is super stable and take some weight off.
Goncalo alves and pau ferro work together and are very stable. Good for holy grailness. Pernambuco is the ultimate tonewood, the end so it is the center spline. Wenge is something we use to support the fretboard. Wenge works well with ebony and Brazilian rosewood, which is why our fretboard will be african blackwood, the middle ground.
The neck headstock will be a scarf joint headstock with maple splines in it for tone transferance and stability (Ruokangas trick) and we will keep the neck volute because it feels nice.
The headstock face will have a bookmatched piece of brazilian rosewood because it will make it sound better, and the back of the headstock will have ebony on it to give it snap.
And there you have it. The perfect set up for the holy grail of guitars. All that's missing is zephyr pickups that are based off the Yaron air-gap pickups for ultimate voicing and tone, with super high end botique controls, and a Hannes bridge-meets-evertune-meets-floyd rose type of bridge for ultimate string sepparation, tuning stability, tone and comfort.
