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If I was going to be a cock I would argue the woods are too similar for any difference to make its way through computer speakers... They are all 'fendery' to me - but I am aware that's a cop out.
A similar test with a greater variation between the woods would be good - but who really has time for that
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so what's the thoughts on thinline tele's. Its an easy one to test because you can take a tele and hollow it out. If body wood is unimportant this should not affect tone as the structure between nut and bridge remains unchanged. I have done it and it made a guitar I hated into something quite brilliant. I would swear the plugged in tone was massively improved. For honesties sake, the other factors I changed were the removal of a neck pickup and switch to make it an esquire, everything else was reused. I am well aware the removal of the neck pickup will be partly responsible for the opening up of the tone as there would be less magnetic pull on the strings.
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
I recently listed my choices for the pancake les Paul build.i had planks of mahogany from the same batch with wildly varying weights and tap tones
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It's like when people complained that BMI didn't give useful results for powerlifters, or that IQ tests don't measure one's ability to paint a decent watercolour.
Also what's that about the BMI and IQ thing? Haven't come across that before, I'd be interested to hear that.
The wine ones are pretty funny too, I always find.
Wow, do you work out?
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Both just examples of perfectly decent, useful tests that people decry for not applying to things to which they don't apply. Like complaining that a ruler isn't a great straightedge, or that a spoon isn't that brilliant for measuring distances. I feel the same when people complain about scientific testing off something not having tested something else. Why not go and test the other thing, if that's what you're interested in?
@mkjackary I can't really seem to understand this. Are you saying your touch is so light that the string is in contact with the guitar only at nut, bridge and fretwire? I haven't got a guitar to hand so can't try it out but surely it's virtually impossible to do consistently, and I can't imagine what the benefit is. Do you do it for barre chords too? And how do you do vibrato? Or is your neck scalloped maybe?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I honestly can't remember noticing fretboard wood. Surely if you play a lot you've got callouses like Batfink's wings?
I often wonder if all of this is like asking junkies and drug dealers what is the best thing with which to cut heroin.
Probably we should all go for ice-cream.
I hope no one I thinking I have a vested interest to the point my mind is closed.
Yes, I make guitars. No, I don't need to sell any.
But yeah, I do think you need to experience tap tone from plank to finished instrument a good few times before writing it off. But only I you are a builder..... Players should just play what they like.
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(b) yeah i do have callouses but i notice it when doing a lot of lead playing. rhythm playing, not so much.
(a) Yeah that's kind of my point. It's one thing saying one group is irrational or talking nonsense when you have lots of good quality studies showing that that's the case. It's quite another when you have few, if any, studies, and when those studies have a lot of obvious flaws.
I suspect what difference there is, when plugged in at least, is subtle (certainly when compared to things like pickups), but that's not the same as no difference, nor does it mean people who think it makes a difference are crazy (they might have better ears).
(b) Yeah I suspect that's the case with guitars, too. Probably with a lot of products even outside music.
(c) Yeah definitely. It's incredibly difficult to get a genuinely fair test, and getting there often introduces other problems which make it less like a real world scenario.
(d) I wouldn't go so far as to say I don't care what wood my guitars are, but I do agree it's probably at least an order of magnitude below things like pickups etc. when it comes to affecting tone.