Wich wood for a extremely balanced STRAT?

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Hails guys. i´m thinking in replace my strat with a new one....
sell it and buy another one or hand made another one....
i want to know your suggeston to neck/bridge/fingerboard woods to have a extremely balanced configuration between : Heavy and smooth bottom end and sharpen brighty mids/highs !

a mahogany body with maple cap and ebony fretboard with mape neck?
Koa body with maple neck and brazilian rosewood fingerboard?
anyone?!?!

i´ll use a H-S-S configuration
with bill lawrence l 500 xl in the bridge and dimarzio class of 55 middle and dimarzio blue velvet neck.

HAILS!
J.P

 

[Benjy_26]

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I'd go with a basswood body and a maple cap, rosewood fretboard and a maple neck. A lot of people don't like basswood, but it can work nicely for what you describe. Anderson guitars use that wood combo in a lot of their models and they sound very good both clean and driven.

 

[That90'sGuy]

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Benjy is correct, Tom Andersons guitars use this combination with much success.

My "superstrat" is as versatile as it gets (it's a Don Grosh... check out www.groshguitars.com). Single coils sound great and so does humbuckers (not that crappy overbearing muddy midrange tone I've heard on a lot of them).

I have a mahogany/maple capped body with a maple/indian rosewood neck. It works VERY well at handling both the intricacies of a Les Paul and a Strat.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

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I'd say mohogany/maple cap for the body, and a solid rosewood neck.

 

[Biu]

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I think a Mahogany body, maple cap, and maple fretboard would be pretty sweet. I wish I had a Class of '55, it sounds like the perfect single-coil for me.

Anyways, I have a Mahogany Ibanez with 2 Blue Velvets in it, and it is the sweetest, richest tone I've ever had. The mahogany does a nice job of balancing out the bright Blue Velvets. I'd imagine it would be heaven with the Class of '55.

 

[mrid]

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It doesn't get much more balanced than alder...the chicken of woods. :laugh2:

 

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Re: Wich wood for a extremely balanced STRAT?

Uh thank´s GUYS
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[Mac-P]

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Alder is THE classic wood for warm clear strats with bolt-on necks and single coil pickups.

 

[LucidInterval]

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I say korina.

 

[crazytooguy]

Second the solid rosewood neck

Second the solid rosewood neck

I've found that rosewood necks are far better than maple necks, especially if you want warmth with brightness. Combined with an ash body, you'll find it's the best of both worlds. My Strat has the ash body and solid rosewood neck, and I get beautiful warm woody sounds as well as clear, bright tones, depending on the pickup settings. Direct thru a DI box into a recording console, the range of tones is staggering! It sounds great straight into a tube amp, too. The type of ash and rosewood matters, though. Ash varies a good bit in density, and there are dozens and dozens of rosewoods. My favorite: swamp ash body, East Indian rosewood neck. Some of the rosewoods (cocobola, Madagascar, kingwood, etc.) are very hard and dense and will be overly bright, with a strong, piercing attack. EI rosewood has more oil and a more open grain than the ones I listed, and that mellows the tone a bit without killing the clarity.