Luthier Wood Review: White Limba Korina the holy grail of tonewood for guitar
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2013
- Inside the Luthier's Shop with BigDGuitars.com. A review of Korina White Limba. Made famous by gibson in their flying V and other guitars
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I really appreciate that you've taken the time make these wood videos. Thanks for sharing this information!
Never even heard of that kind of wood before, very interesting thanks!
I love the comments on this vid and this series... so much fun. Everything matters when it comes to guitar playing.
Just bought a black limba dunable gnarwhal. So excited!
I built a Lap steel guitar out of Korina wood which was about 20 years old. It's very hard to work with when it's 20 years old but boy! what a wonderful lap steel. The tone is amazing and I was blown away by the sound that this thing makes. If you are going to use Korina wood of that age make sure you use tool bits that are super sharp. I hope this will help others when building guitars with korina wood.
My question is, since the wood is hard to get and with the drying issue.... AND if it's basically like mahogany, is it even worth the trouble then? IOW, how much better (and what is "better") tone would it have? And what if you wanted swamp ash instead? I mean, why would this would be considered the best tonewood and wouldn't there be something comparable that isn't just rare so someone felt as if they had something of more worth? Hope that makes sense.
I've just been wishing I could hear all the woods in some side by side vid where it was diff woods BUT the same hardware so you could really hear the diff all the woods make. THAT is a vid I would love to hear. I'll bet my house it does not exist. :)
I've got a 2009 single cut prs se. Really cool wood and interesting history in the world of guitar building.
Really nice wood and guitars.
I really do like the v you made I would like to make a Bc Rich Bich with a Curly maple top
black limba is sooooo pretty! in europe, there's not much concurrence when buying it, so it's available in pretty large quantities at good prices.
Do you know anyone who could cut me a Jazz bass body from a seasoned board of black limba, or anyone who sells such a thing? I am a New Zeadander but recently moved to the Netherlands.
Beautiful V, Love the dice for nobs!
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I buy one PRS CUSTOM 24 Limited edition with Korina Body! Sounds Awesome
I dream of a korina 54 Fender P bass in that classic Gibson korina amber, with a black pickguard that has some wild 50s explorer'esque angles, gold hardware with a flying v 'esque bridge, reverse/left handed p 54 bass headstock, neck in korina as well and a maple fingerboard. And maybe the body double bound in black trim, or as a two tone - amber to black burst. Like as if a gibson flying V had a naughty one night stand with a tobacco burst 54 P bass.
Hi Yoheff, my putter is made of brass and it feels softer than the other metal putter, and tone is lower-fuller sound to it. On the EMGs, are they more touch sensitive and perhaps you can play touch style (not picking the strings). Tossin Abassi (spelling?) played the 8-strings with EMGs and the sound was so good. tnx...Ed
What clear did you use over the wood? Is it a tinted lacquer? Did you use a sealer? I’m about to take on a forked headstock korina moderne build and I’m still in the research phase. Thank you for any insight!
Is this wood found to be consistently more resonant than most? I just recently got a John Suhr strat in Korina/Limba and although it's the brightest guitar I've ever liked it's by far the most acoustically resonant and "ringy" instrument I've ever played. I'm trying to decide if this is just from superior craftsmanship of Suhr guitars, or if this is typical of Limba/Korina in general.
I have a Hamer Artist in Korina and it is one of my favorite if not my favorite guitar! I am looking at getting a Tele and was wondering if Korina would be a good wood to build a Tele with?
Used heavily in making table tennis blades. It has an excellent property when used as a real thin outer ply on rackets.
Also take into account that active EMG's have a preamp built in...they will sound almost identical in any guitar you put them in.
Passive pickups will have a different tone in every single guitar, even 2 guitars from the same factory production batch because there are no 2 identical pieces of wood.
Great review. I think i learned something about it today. I've heard that it's hard to work with for the mere fact that it cracks in kilns. But people made it sound like a carpenter's worst nightmare besides that.
What I can say for an absolute fact, though, is holy Hell does it sound good. More mids, more highs than mahogany but it still has the LOWER mids that really hit you.
So you seem really knowledgeable about the exotic woods... What do you know about cocobolo? Have you worked with it? One day I wish to order a korina Suhr Modern with a cocobolo fingerboard... for one it looks beautiful, but for another, it "sounds" (from what's written about it) like it would work well tonally with it. What would you say?
Cocobolo is pretty. I think properly dried macassar ebony is a good option for fret boards. Some of the oily woods take a long time to dry, and why they sometimes don't get good reviews, and sometimes they do.
I think that it’s higher percentage , to prove my point I once took a $50 Fender squier and made it sound like a million bucks installing EMG’s in it, and replacing the bridge to an all solid brass.
I was in shock myself to here the quality sound that came out of that thing.
Korina is a really beautyful wood, my God!
I wonder if Luthier Wood would make a 9-string neck thru with the Tele body? I would be interested. tnx. Ed
Hello, seeing that you were working with this Korina wood, I wanted to consult you ... does this wood by any chance have any perfume, aroma? How is it? (I consult it because I am working with a very similar wood with a perfume similar to tobacco or vanilla) thank you!
Is that clear lacquer or poly? Or did you apply some color? I am doing a korina v and want that natural golden tone you got. Just like the original 58 Flying V, before the lacquer turns caramel colored.
Thx!
I used a natural wood filler and then lacquer over it. I used a briwax wood filler, cant find the product in my shop anymore!
This thing's Fuggin' beautiful! I love me wood grains, pointy guitars and the sweet sweet V's!
/w\ METAL HERE /w\
"Death to false metal!"
I’m building a one van piece Tele made of white Limba. Isn’t the wood dust poisonous?
Let's hear the Flying V! :D
Hi thebigdguitars,season greetings from Guyana. I must say you are generous for sharing those little known 'secrets' of the trade.I didn't know most of the stuff you have mentioned about tone woods.I really want to make myself guitars 'cause I can't afford a Gibson,Fender,or PRS. And you don't know how much I love guitars. Guyana is blessed with tons of tropical woods but how do I know which woods to use?Can you please tell.Thanks in advance.
I was looking up the native woods of your country try to find this lumber:
Swietenia macrophylla
Sounds like its a version of mahogany
Hi bud,thanks for replying.I don't think we have that specie of wood here. It grows in Brazil and Venezuela but not here! Check this site:www.forestry.gov.gy/Downloads/21%20Species%20Booklet%202004.pdf
This gives an idea what we have.I am not au fait with the technical aspects of wood.Can you help?Thanks
I can hear the difference. I have a reissue Korina Explorer and the harmonic overtones are so much louder than my Les Paul, SG, Flying V, LP Special, Carvin and Kramer it almost sounds like a higher octave sometimes. I've changed the bridge and the pickups on the Explorer and it did not change this charactoristic. I know that it's either the shape of the body or the wood
That V is gorgeous....any chance it's for sale??? (:
This is 2022, so almost ten years later. Those streaks are apparently caused by a fungus that feeds on the sugar in the wood. Reverend uses korina/limba extensively for various models. I just bought an Epiphone 2021 '58 Flying V, and Explorer, both use korina/limba for the body and necks, Pau Ferro for fretboards (Rosewood isn't used as much now, CITES regulations). They are natural finish, slightly stained like mahogany usually is, thinner poly finish than Epiphone used to use, very pretty guitars, and flawless in construction. Although I don't usually like gold hardware, it looks very nice on these guitars. The hardware and electronics are much better than Epiphone used in the past, these are the best sounding pro-buckers I've yet played through. They are dead-nuts copies of the originals, the Gibson versions of these cost over TEN TIMES MORE than the $599USD shipped I paid for them new. The bodies are several pieces of wood, the the Flying V is mostly two pieces of book matched wood, with just a little piece added to the crotch, the neck is mostly one piece with a heal cap and headstock scarf-joint. I would love to get a telecaster and stratocaster made from this wood, I think they would sound great and be light weight. These new epiphone Flying V and Explorer guitars are light weight and resonant, thanks to the African korina/limba wood. Thanks for the video, beautiful guitars!
Thanks for the excellent videos! Quick question, I have a piece of vintage limba/Korina (cut in the 70's and never used) but it is the width of the board is basically only thick enough to equate to a top. I also have a old 1940-50's mahogany desk i came across that is beyond need for repair, though the top is good. Do you think putting the two together would be worthy in a PRS (similar) styled guitar build? Which would make for the better top? I play heavier type music so I'm trying to work a good crunchy guitar sound out of this- at least in respect to the body wood.
Is that just clear coat on those guitars or do you have to use some kind of tint/stain to accent the yellow color? Thx!
clear grain filler on the V. The blueshawk is just a wax.
Does anybody have an idea to the korina’s best pickups?
is good for necks also?
and it has the same effect combined with maple top as mahogany, meaning canceling the high mids?
Hi! You can use for neck but I recommend carbon fiber rods reinforcement, it’s an hard wood but softer than mahogany and maple
Man, ive got a ton (not quite) but about 12 boards 10' long 12+wide @4/4 Its bkack limba with amazing figure.. This is good for instruments? I have a 24" powermatic bandsaw with a laguna resaw-king blade so i can resaw quite well. What are really good sets worth? I know ypur making electric guitars but im thinking accoustic..do you have much knowlege on those? And approx value? Its a very nice looking wood for sure.
+Swedish Holmberg you would have to look around on ebay, I have not seen a ton of acoustic limba guitar sets. Its been a while since I have searched for 3/16 sets.
A question for those who say only pickups bridge and saddle matter... would you go as far as to say there is no difference between solid and hollow bodies?
+jeff mccall there is a difference, everything matters to what importance is where the debate is these days.
+BigDGuitars - thanks for responding. I have never built a guitar before but I am determined to make one soon. I would like a limba flying v eventually but should I start with something simple instead? also what's the best advice you have for someone starting out?
+jeff mccall go slow and practice, don't expect that your 1st guitar will be awesome. I made 3 and by the 4th one I was really happy with it. I still have most of the 1st ones I built as lessons learned.
how you compare it to poplar ?
If pickups were microphones you might have something. I love the different woods for their beauty or the way they feel.
If you weren't home schooled, YOU might have something known as intelligence.
False. Two identical guitars made with identical species of woods will not have the same tonal properties- probably nobody could tell in that case, but it is true. He does though, in fact, "have something". Furthermore, identical guitars with different woods- or even the same woods in a different construction- WILL be noticeably different to anyone not deaf. It comes down to many things, which is why people pay big bucks for professionals to hand-select the proper samples for certain properties. Just go down to your local B&M and play an alder, pine, and ash strat side by side. You shall see.
All pickups are microphonic. I build and wax pot pickups to cut down on microphonic a but you can never silence a magnetic pickup as far as microphonic a go. An unpotted pickup will function like a simple microphone. Many older and some current production pickups aren't potted so you're likely to hear amplified acoustics in any elected guitar you play. Still think wood doesn't matter? Maybe you have wooden ears?
ruclips.net/video/0bNIjZN1o_Y/видео.html
Hey Derrick, it's Sheikh from Guyana 🇬🇾. How has it been. Love your body of work there? Tell me can birch be used in solid body guitars? thanks.
@@sheikhabrahim4057 hey buddy. Yes you can use birch. In between maple and alder
@@bigdguitars Got you .Thanks.
Hey Bro...do you think that those guitar kits from ebay that all claim 'Mahogany' are really mahogany?
Sometime, sometimes not. A lot of time it's African mahogany or something else.
Is the wood dust toxic?
black limba is the heart wood, white limba is the sap wood so they both will always look different
Hi can you teach me how to finish my korina in that color?
That V would look nice with Gold hardware.
How are you finishing these to get that nice yellowish color?
That guitar is old!! Built it like 7 years ago. The filler I had was a bit tinted.
Mo-HAGA-nee, I like that way of saying it, there's more upper midrange that way than 'MoHOGany.'
Keep doing cool stuff!
Mahagoni.
I like your flying v guitar..nice..👍👍👍
thanks man. I should have filmed that build it built it a different way.
I can't afford it..
Is this stuff poisonous? I wanna build a korina v but I don't want to die...
Hi can you build me a korina flying v ?
With all the respect I have for beautiful wood, I think that the majority of the sound is produced by the pickups and all the metal hardware, the pickups are magnetic wood is not, I’m not sure that the acoustic properties of an electric guitar play a big roll the minute you turn the amp on.
i love it when he tried to tap-tone a huge slab of wood like a violin maker tapping a finely carved top plate. Wood type does matter in electrics, in that if you get something too soft or dense for the body/neck, it will muddle the sound and limit sustain. But "tonewood" is not necessary for electric guitars at all. All you need is a good hard wood and very tight tolerances on the neck joint and any lamination. Everything else is determined by the strings and hardware, and it will sound like a guitar.
Hell, the quality of strings you put on it has a bigger impact on the sound than the wood species, unless your crazy and using something like balsa wood for the body, LOL
That sounds like a Jersey accent. Good review.
I want you to make a korina guitar for me.
Got some today, looking forward to it! So much wood...😂
cool!
You called it the holy grail of guitar tone wood, and you didn't even plug in a guitar and play it through an amp. Do you have a video of them being played?
Is this the wood that Reverend uses?
I think so
Couldn't agree more. Had a guitar built for me out of Limba this year and I am astounded everytime I pick it up how resonant it is. Great video.
imgur.com/gallery/TIR8MSz
I've been researching guitar woods, and have since determined that it doesn't matter. Look it up people. Science. Wood is for cosmetic purposes these days. Sunbursts and natural finishes, but once it's pluggd in the wood becomes irrelevent. Only on acoustic guitars does it matter. There is NO pickup. Unless you have a 50's strat with unpotted pickups, then the wood does not matter. It's a fact do your research. It's how the big companies charge you so much. Why do you think all these wood peddlers try to copy Gibsons and Fenders? Trying to make a living off old bullshit. Leo Fender himself said the wood made no difference. He used ash for the sunbursts because of the look of it. The painted Fenders were alder because it was cheeper and all over California. They didn't sound different. they sounded good. The difference was almost unnoticeable. These people are peddling wood, not quality guitars. Go listen to guitars that you actually play. Fuck the namebrands . Go use your ears. You'll save a fortune.
Entirely agree. I prefer highlight local trees than others (scarce species) from thousand km away, isn't a spalted black walnut or ambrosia maple stunning?
22CARLOCO22 jeez, thanks a lot doctor
ruclips.net/video/OLxE8iDWD_w/видео.htmlm40s Sure.
How did you do your research?
I remember Gibson trying to scare amateur luthiers with this wood: www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/korinawoodmakesgreatguitar.aspx
If possible, could you do a review of Black Locust wood? It seems like the ideal one for metal, both for its hardness and name.
Gibson will tell you all sorts of shit to make you buy their overprices stuff. In reality, I'd say wood makes a difference but it is NOT price related or dependent on how pretty it is. I've built some guitars out of butt ugly wood that needed paint to look ok and they sound great.
Tipe of wood doesn't matter if you care about the sound on a electric instument, learn some physics. If you care about beauty and comfort maybe.
White limba Korina? I thought Honduras Mahogany was the holy grail of tone woods 😳
Reverend Guitars uses Korina
Yeh, i just bought one.. lovely timber, resonant and lively.. I was sold on it initially unplugged.. Always a good test pre purchase
i want that beutiful flying v :3
To those who say wood does not matter:
Players and builders and techs all have different interests and priorities, Leo himself reportedly could not play the guitar at all yet had great ideas that work and sound amazing to this day.
For players type of wood matters, weight matters, type of finish matters, a 14” radius plays completely differently than a 12” radius and so on.
Strings do not resonate in a mathematical model but on the guitar itself and everything that surrounds them is important, from amount of water vapour in the air to the condition of the capacitors in your amp, what you had for lunch not withstanding.
Picking the correct piece of wood is very important but that does not mean you have to pick an expensive piece of wood or a rare piece of wood or even a beautiful one.
Not everything you can control but somethings, like which wood to use you can make a conscious decision about and that is another reason why it is important.
The reality is that sometimes changing the type of nut material or replacing worn out bridge saddles can have as much of a drastic effect as changing the type of wood but for most bedroom warriors it’s a virtual conversation anyway since they change strings once a year and can’t play. Clean your guitar, put some proper strings on, set it up correctly, learn to play and then we can talk about how your plywood guitar is good enough - if you can’t do any of that then sure wood is not a factor for your “sound” since you might as well play a broom with strings on.
Why would I not care about type of wood, when it’s a difference of a few hundreds dollars between plywood and master grade seasoned hand selected pieces when I have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on strings alone?
Some of you hobbyists buy these “pro” guitars because of your insatiable hubris and then you do nothing but bitch about how tools for serious players are a waste of money - it’s not your call to make wether they are good or not since you are not using them correctly or for their intended purpose. Unless you stop complaining and get down to studying the guitar seriously you won’t be able to make that call anytime this lifetime.
We all knew shit at one point but it takes a real fool to ignore what good players use and recommend and let me tell you they all use well built wooden guitars and have parkers and plastic guitars hanging on the wall from back when coke was considered a dietary supplement.
I think Loe's vision was to make affordable guitars so more people could play.
He didn't care to much...It was made out of pine and ugly as fuck.
The god damn tele still looks ugly to me.lmao
You know that old argument...through necks are better than bolt on.
Loe was like..fuck that piece of shit Gibson..What are you gonna do when the neck
breaks or wears? lmao
kim young The first Teles were built to help sell Fender amps because that was his primary business in the forties. He was a radio and amp guy. When people really liked the Tele he decided to concentrate more on guitars. Or so I've been told. I wasn't there so don't take this as the absolute truth :)
Neil Pincus I watch the history of the guitars. Fender were selling steel slide guitars back when...which used amps. Something about Hawaiian and country music..
Makes sense why surf music sounds a certain way. Southern Ca...
He probably saw a dude at a Fair or at the board walks playing the slide guitar backward with a strap...Then the light bulb came on.lmao
There's a actually a famouse blues player that playes the guitar...left handed, upside down...without re arranging the strings....
To you and I...it's upside down and backwards.lmao
kim young Either way, the Tele is the daddy of them all. I'm finishing up an ash seven string Tele Deluxe. That's gonna be a machine!
kim young It's a deluxe so two humbuckers. They're wound kinda medium hot and I put split switches in for both. It won't sound all that Tele-like but will still have that ash snap. Waiting for the plating shop to chrome the bridge and then it goes together!
I don't understand how the resonance of the body can noticeably affect the tone the pickups receive
Basically, the wood changes how the strings resonate by making them vibrate differently, therefore changing how the pickups "hear" them.
Ninaman598 I understand that, but it's hard to imagine it doing much at all to the strings
It certainly makes a difference, but its not the be all end all of the tone. If you get a good pickup set to match the wood it will bring out the sound even more.
Ninaman598 How do you KNOW this? there is no evidence to suggest this, there is far more evidence to suggest the wood makes no difference when the guitar is plugged in.
I cant tell you specifically. It does, even if not that much. Im not getting into a tonewood debate.
Sound comes from the pickups, not the wood....unless your talking about an acoustic guitar . J.S
I have a collection of pickups with no sound coming out of them. An electric guitar is not that much different from an acoustic.
korina vs. sapeli
Its just another way to get you to pay wayyyy more money for a "tone wood" that you need special conditions to even hear the difference if there is any.
Yep. 100% of the Reverend guitars and basses etc. are made of "Korina". They don't charge a dime more for that wood. They even paint solid colors over most of them. So, out any "MAGIC" about Korina wood is B.S. Don't pay more for it. Reverend doesn't pay more and don't charge more........so, don't pay more from anyone trying to gouge you for this TONEWOOD.
When he started talking tone wood and tapping on the wood, I thought...here we go! The comments are gonna be long and heated! I was right!😂
Indeed.. to be honest it's really clear the differences between woods i don't understand how people don't hear it. The arguments are great though xD
@@Wolfsfang to be honest, I personally can't tell much of a difference. I've worked for the railroad, 2 noisey factories, played drums all my life, guitar half mylife, and went to many concerts, clubs, bars, and listened to a lot of loud music! My hearing is half gone! If there is a difference, I would never be able to tell. To look on the bright side of things, I can be happy with a cheap guitar! 😂
Hey to be honest that's a pretty good advantage, it'll save you thousands trust me! 😂😂
@@Wolfsfang oh ya! For sure!👍😎
@@Wolfsfang was just thinkin...I built a Tele kit guitar I got for Christmas last year and I was planning on changing the pickups, but the more I play it, the more I think it sounds great! It plays nice too...spent a lot of time gettin the frets just right! I play it most of the time and let my others sit! Don't have to worry about scratches and dents! Only $110 plus finishing supplies!😀
The holy grail? carvin offers these in all their models as bodys necks or tops and they are not even expensive
Carvin and other big companies buy in bulk which lowers the price to buyers, but I've been told Korina is not that rare. I think he means that it is highly desirable because african mahogany, limba, is like mahogany but with a little more brightness, like maple, and it therefore has the best of both worlds, warmth of mahogany with some maple like brightness. that's what my luthier told me. The original 50's Gibsons had korina, and because they're old, are highly prized by collectors and players who are willing to pay over $100,000 or more for a 50's gibson, because wood ages with time and supposedly has a better tone the longer it ages. Or so I've been told. You have to judge for yourself what's important in a guitar for your needs. A new korina gibson would sound different than a 1950s korina gibson, if it has a nitrocellulose paint job or clear coat that allows the wood to breath and age and lose moisture. As wood ages and dries, it loses moisture and I think resonates better. It took me a long while to get someone to tell me the difference without a long winded explanation. I hope I've been accurate here, i'm doing my best. Rock on.
EVERY SINGLE GUITAR THAT REVEREND MAKES IS KORINA. NO UPCHARGE FOR IT. THEY DON'T OFFER A DIFFERENT WOOD.......IT'S KORINA OR NOTHING. THEY PAINT THEM ALL...........NO "Korina" COLORED FINISHES (Amber colored).
Groovy Music Lessons I have a 2010 Reverend Warhawk II 390 that is not painted or colored. It is a natural Korina blonde. Your comment is false.
My comment is true you stupid fuck. I stated that it needs to like like the color used for the original V's and Explorers. If it is unpainted, then it is just the ugly Limba color with no amber added. So, shut the fuck up and listen to the master of all I survey.
@@groovydjs wow, you must be fun at a party!
Sometimes I wonder why every guitar company imports woods from outside to make guitars?
There're great tone woods in USA too. For example Southern Magnolia which grows in USA, so no need to import wood from Africa. It weighs the same as Limba but is way harder than Limba. Not to forget it looks way more beautiful than Limba.
Same is true about Canadian Hard Maple, I see no reason in importing them, the wood from Winged Elm available in USA is lighter and harder than Hard Maple. And it looks prettier than it too.
One can make superior guitars from wood thats readily available in USA instead of importing overpriced woods from outside USA.
I would love some southern magnolia for a guitar. send me some
CAG Lumber from Gainesville, Florida has nice slabs of Southern Magnolia for sale.
You can contact them, their prices are quite affordable too.
Here's their contact details:
caglumber.com/contactUs.html.
There is not much contribution to sound quality coming from the wood, if any. The pickups and amplifier do all the work. Play an electric guitar without the amp and there you have your sound coming from the wood.
Jupp, and any guitar i play without amplifier sounds different. Hardware, Shape and wood choice.
The pickups are only able to pick up, what the dry tone offers. Subtle maybe, but definitely there
Tonewood:::the "used car salesman" term in the (Electric) Guitar Industry!!
The Type 1 error VS type 2 error shout-fest of the geetar industry....
Yep. 100% of the Reverend guitars and basses etc. are made of "Korina". They don't charge a dime more for that wood. They even paint solid colors over most of them. So, any "MAGIC" about Korina wood is B.S. Don't pay more for it. Reverend doesn't pay more and don't charge more........so, don't pay more from anyone trying to gouge you for this TONEWOOD.
"Tap tone" huh? Lol.
Because no great guitar builder ever does that.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I cant be taken seroiusly about bigfoot tho the patterson movie never has been debunked
but heres a video about something no one has been able to prove and all thumbs up... way to go humanity!!
This CAN be proven. What's wrong with you, Man? Don't know enough about the subject? Stick with your Bigfoot thing, because at least with that, you can't be called-out as a COMPLETE idiot (Until you're around real people that don't give a shit about chasing ghosts, because much like god, they don't exist) on the subject. Everything, in regard to reasons why certain woods are chosen over others CAN, in-fact, be proven. That's exactly what technology allows us to do. So, sarcastic comments only work when you're right. Otherwise, you're left looking the way that you look now... 'Tarded.
tone wood matters little. I could build a guitar out of plywood and if it was well made and the neck joint was good it would sound just as good as a guitar made of limba. your amp is the most important thing when tone is concerned on electric guitar. a 4000$ guitar sounds shit on a line 6 while a $200 guitar would sound great on an Engl
+hawk6111 Agreed I was given an old Samick strat I stripped it down to paint and said OMG it's plywood. I proceeded anyhow after putting new pickups wiring and setup it sounds incredibly good so there you go.
Amps are important but so are scale length, string gauge, action, quality of electronics, pickup output, how you play it, etc etc
ruclips.net/video/OLxE8iDWD_w/видео.htmlm40s Really? These are two identical guitars strummed in identical ways, except one is made of swamp ash and the other mahogany. It makes a difference, and a big one.
@@Wolfsfang Those guys are GUITARDED.
@@groovydjs my dude, that comment is over a year old. And I agree, but it serves the purpose in this case.
To everyone who will say tonewood doesn't matter: Here are two identical guitars, except one is made of swamp ash and the other mahogany, running the same amp, same picks, same location strummed, in the same manner. Tonewood matters. ruclips.net/video/OLxE8iDWD_w/видео.htmlm40s
All wood is "poisonous".
Gibson a liar?........don't believe you! (cuac!)
si parla sempre di tipi di legni....ognuno ha le proprie preferenze e professa che sia il meglio del meglio......in realtà sono tutte discussioni inutili...questo è un'argomento che non avrà mai fine...troppe variabili cominciando dai gusti personali del chitarrista....
Tap tone means absolutely nothing in an electric guitar. Zero. Same story with "resonant"
U´r really a troll and know nothing about electric guitars. To be resonant is a big factor. Think u r a guy, who thought only pick ups make the tone.
@@philfrank9226 You clearly know absolutely nothing at all. No i am not "a guy who thinks only pickups make the tone". But the way the wood makes the tone in an electric guitar is completely different than in an acoustic. Do you understand that? Or not? there is absolutely nothing about "resonance". Zero.
It acts like a filter. Get your physics right and less vooodoo bullshit.
By the way, i am building guitars myself for many years now, so I know exactly what I am talking about, What about you?
My post means absolutely nothing ...lol.
Wood does effect sustain but not tone. The harder, more dense the wood, the more sustain. Acoustic guitar, completely different story, wood does effect tone 100%.
ruclips.net/video/OLxE8iDWD_w/видео.htmlm40s It affects the sound too