Re: My Billy Gibbons Super Model Replica
Looks nice... but chambering a neck can go real wrong real fast, especially if you do the chambering before the backshape carving (which makes more sense from a technical perspective, but unfortunately greatly raises the risk of carving through when profiling). Not to mention the lowered structural stability from teh loss of such a large amount of load bearing material.
Hope it all turns out good :beerchug:
.....Less mass = less tone....
I personally prefer my axes more on teh heavy side, explorers, LPs and whatnot, but this is more or less :bsflag:
If that were plainly true, NOBODY would be making light guitars, but they´d all be searching out tue 70´s boat anchor les pauls. Or all the exotic wood parts axes from the 80s with 14 pound weights and the tonal properties of an icepick on a chalkboard....
Assuming of course that they would still be made out of wood at all and not just poured out of lead
In the 70s and early 80s there was the fad of more mass = more sustain.... that at least held some weight, but sustain is not = tone, a note can sound like **** forever (no tone, lots of sustain) or angelic for the blink of an eye (lots of tone, no sustain).
But directly correlating mass to tone in any way not only defies the laws of physics but it essentially reduces the entire art of luthierie to a bathroom scale and a bottle of school glue.
Unfortunately, trying to make it clear to a guitarist that "different that what you´re used to" (in this case "Chambered") is not automatically "total piece of crap" is like trying to teach your senile great grandmother how to configure a CAT scan by charades, using a manual that was first translated from english into aramaic and then from aramaic into mandarin before then being printed in german. Eventually it might happen, but Ben and Jerry´s will probably open a successful retail outlet in Hell first :laugh2:
