What's your Favorite Tonewood?

[orpheo]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

I like ebony or rosewood, but I am sure there are a ton of other woods I would like for a fretboard, too. I mean, we use so few species... it is silly. There is a whole world of materials out there. The fretboard wood might not even matter if it is scalloped.

fretboard material is extremely important but not for the reason you might think. Some materials simply work better, easier. For example: when leveling the fretboard, maple sands fine, rosewood clogs up the sandpaper and ebony is a dream to work with.

My new favorite, or at least rapidly becoming a favorite, is bog oak. This is pitch black, like ebony, but with pores slightly less dense. Sands great, looks beautiful and is sustainable compared to ebony.

 

[Jeffblue]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Black or White Korina for bodies (and necks for humbucker/Les Paul style builds) and roasted Maple with Rosewood or Bloodwood fretboards for single coil/strat/tele builds.

 

[Mincer]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

fretboard material is extremely important but not for the reason you might think. Some materials simply work better, easier. For example: when leveling the fretboard, maple sands fine, rosewood clogs up the sandpaper and ebony is a dream to work with.

My new favorite, or at least rapidly becoming a favorite, is bog oak. This is pitch black, like ebony, but with pores slightly less dense. Sands great, looks beautiful and is sustainable compared to ebony.

Interesting. There are probably tons of species that are easy to work with that are waiting to be discovered by builders like you. I can't wait to see what y'all come up with.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

fretboard material is extremely important but not for the reason you might think. Some materials simply work better, easier. For example: when leveling the fretboard, maple sands fine, rosewood clogs up the sandpaper and ebony is a dream to work with.

My new favorite, or at least rapidly becoming a favorite, is bog oak. This is pitch black, like ebony, but with pores slightly less dense. Sands great, looks beautiful and is sustainable compared to ebony.

Ebony is always my preference, but I played a bog oak acoustic in London last year that was probably the best sounding guitar I've ever played -although, it sold for half the price of new car.

 

[ChAoZ]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Interesting. There are probably tons of species that are easy to work with that are waiting to be discovered by builders like you. I can't wait to see what y'all come up with.

I'm not entering the debate, but I'm enjoying experimenting with our NZ native species

 

[Mincer]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

I'm not entering the debate, but I'm enjoying experimenting with our NZ native species

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What is it? It is really cool looking.

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

I tried a "Morgan" guitar (norway designed, china made) acoustic-.

made out of exotic tonewoods. A western dreadnought guitar..,.

It was so warm and mellow sounding, it was close to a nylon string guitar

Didn't get to know the exact materials... but they were all dark / caramel in colour... and it was expensive (800USD)... for a budget brand guitar...

I'd love to have one, for fingerpicking. as it was radically different sounding to a spruce/mahogany western.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Or the full price of half a car.

Yep, the glass is always full, even if it’s half water and half air.

 

[StoRMiE]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Plywood. The thin shrill sound and lack of definition is perfect to disappear in the mix so nobody knows how bad your playing is.

 

[solspirit]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Spruce. Hahaha. Seriously, it is one of the most evenly grained woods there are.

 

[solspirit]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Plywood. The thin shrill sound and lack of definition is perfect to disappear in the mix so nobody knows how bad your playing is.

What about Masonite?

 

[Demanic]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

How about Lucite?

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[solspirit]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

This stuff gives me a woody
https://english.zeroone-pro.com/tennage/woodlist/

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

How about Lucite?

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Sorry, not wood. You guitar player subscription is canceled. But you could start a thread on does tone plastic matter?

 

[Demanic]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Sorry, not wood. You guitar player subscription is canceled. But you could start a thread on does tone plastic matter?

Well, that hurts. My guitar player subscription cancelled? So, I'll just have to come up with stuff on my own?
And I can say, tone plastic is clear and really let's the pickups stand out. This is probably the brightest guitar that I own.

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[Chistopher]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Plywood. The thin shrill sound and lack of definition is perfect to disappear in the mix so nobody knows how bad your playing is.

Ah yes, no better proof that the objective quality of a wood's tone directly correlates with it's cost than plywood.

 

[Demanic]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

here you go

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Well, that hurts. My guitar player subscription cancelled? So, I'll just have to come up with stuff on my own?
And I can say, tone plastic is clear and really let's the pickups stand out. This is probably the brightest guitar that I own.

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Yes, I would expect plastic to be the pinnacle of clarity.

 

[Demanic]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Well, you're right.

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[SirJackdeFuzz II]

Re: What's your Favorite Tonewood?

Aluminium.

+1 . . . and Carbon on acoustics