Slammin Mofo
Inspired
Here's a little poll for you guys: Do you believe that body, neck and fingerboard wood is actively affecting, regardless how sparsely, the electrical guitar tone?
Agreed. Pickups 1st. Next is the hands that put the guitar together.
Then the body wood & how it was treated, then the neck wood & construction, then the pots & wiring, then the bridge & nut.
Everything after that contributes very minutely to the actual tone, with the possible exception to the strings, depending on who you're talking to.
I've seen that piece of "research." It's flawed in several ways, and the data presented don't match the conclusions.Voted yes, even though I've seen a piece of research that shows that *identically constructed* guitars made from radically different wood tested almost identically for the most audible frequencies. If this is backed up by more research, I'd have to admit I was wrong.
You can buy two different gibson bonamassa and a epiphone bonamassa that use the same wood and same pickups and arguably the same construction but very different sounding and playing.
Makes you wonder what the finish of the wood and the other hardware make.
I just bought a new les paul standard yesterday and tried a few ,all sounding different.