Guitar Body Woods, A discussion of different types |
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Guitar Body Woods, A discussion of different types |
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Apr 2 2009, 05:19 AM |
There's a good article on body woods here...
Body Woods at Warmoth Lots of other god info on guitar construction at this site too. |
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Apr 2 2009, 07:46 AM |
http://www.jemsite.com/jem/wood.htm is also a good link.
Basswood is quite light and soft. As the name almost implies it's quite bass heavy. Especially cheaper basswood seems to lack brightness and clarity. The Ibanez JEM for example is a more expensive guitar made out of basswood. Jonas Wagner -------------------- My Website | My Gear | Elixir Nanoweb Strings Review | Installing Schaller Security Locks
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Apr 2 2009, 03:25 PM |
Thanks for the links guys Ill check them out later today when I get out of work. And 29a, thanks for the info on basswood. I kind of figured that the name implied the tone. At least I know now that it wasn't just in my head when I noticed that my tone doesn't have a nice sounding high end About basswood, it's _not_ bassy. The name comes of tree from the basswood tree. It's very midsy and rather weak on the low frequencies really. Mahogany is also midsy but is a higher density wood and more lows woth that. Alder is in the other end of the scale, bright. P.S. Steve Vai's JEM is made our of Adler, the other cheaper JEM's are basswood I think. -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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Apr 2 2009, 04:04 PM |
There's a good article on body woods here... Body Woods at Warmoth Lots of other god info on guitar construction at this site too. Nice one! |
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Apr 2 2009, 06:22 PM |
Yes almost all Jems are 'American Basswood', but Jem 7 VWH is Alder (not only Vai's but the ones we can buy aswell, not sure if you meant that) Yeah, I meant the model -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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Apr 2 2009, 06:51 PM |
About basswood, it's _not_ bassy. The name comes of tree from the basswood tree. It's very midsy and rather weak on the low frequencies really. My B-2 stealth sounds very bassy and it is out of basswood. Could be the pickups though. The other thing is hard and dense wood tends to be trebly, right? So soft and light woods should sound more bassy (because they cancel out more of he upper frequencies). Anyway that's just theory. I guess you're right. - Jonas -------------------- My Website | My Gear | Elixir Nanoweb Strings Review | Installing Schaller Security Locks
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