Need advice: semi-hollow without laminate!

[dystrust]

Re: Need advice: semi-hollow without laminate!

Gibson 335s sound good. But to my ears a side by side comparison with a PRS hollowbody favors the PRS by a world. So I assume its due to the difference between solid and laminates.

I've also played both side-by-side and thought the PRS sounded like crap, but to each their own. They have very different electronics, different scale length, different body size, and different construction (a 335 has a center block, while a PRS only has a post under the bridge). The tone difference is much more likely the result of one of these other design considerations.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Need advice: semi-hollow without laminate!

Laminated sides and back are structurally better
The top should be solid bit if you get a flame, quilt, or burl then that's gonna be a Laminated ply on top

Won't hurt
Just that's why you don't see those type tops on acoustics

A semi hollow is kinda between

Laminates don't affect the magnetic pickups at all

And would have little to do with the amplified tone

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My Semi-Hollow is solid woods–mahogany and spruce. I would say it has a much fuller tone than my solid body strat and it sounds better on the 2 and 4 positions. I guess I was thinking that the solid wood was better than laminate...never thought of this.

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[ehdwuld]

Re: Need advice: semi-hollow without laminate!

My Semi-Hollow is solid woods–mahogany and spruce. I would say it has a much fuller tone than my solid body strat and it sounds better on the 2 and 4 positions. I guess I was thinking that the solid wood was better than laminate...never thought of this.

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Is that semi hollow or chambered
Sweet looking

Most jazz boxes and acoustics have laminated back and sides

What's it called when a figured top is glued over a mahogany body

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[treyhaislip]

Re: Need advice: semi-hollow without laminate!

Is that semi hollow or chambered
Sweet looking

Most jazz boxes and acoustics have laminated back and sides

What's it called when a figured top is glued over a mahogany body

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Thanks! Turned out really nicely!

It is a semi-hollow–the pickups are set in Mahogany but its hollow everywhere else. Sounds awesome unplugged and I am trying to figure out a piezo system for it...I'm picky about my colors matching and can only find a piezo strat bridge in chrome.