Are there any advantages to having a solid body (not chambered) ?

[jackthehack]

From my experience with a lot of Warmoth bodies, chambered bodies tend to be more resonant than solids, but the woods used have an impact on this.

Hopefully you live somewhere that there is a music store with a decent stock of Fenders. Play a solid body Telecaster and a Thinline. Tone wise, given the same electronics they sound distinctly different.

The differentiation between, for example, a a Strat body solid or chambered is somewhere in between the differential between the two Teles. I don't have any  better way of trying to explain sound than that...

OTOH, I am so over posts about "neck driving" that I'm ready to go off. If anybody on thsi site has a guitar that weighs more than ten pounds, post a picture on a scale because I don't believe you...  If your arms are so pathetically puny that you can notice any differentiation in balance in anything you hold that is under 10 lbs. and 3.5 feet longer you seriously need to go to the gym before playing guitars. Does your woman have to carry the groceries from the var to the house for you as well???

 

[spauldingrules]

If you have a chambered (without f holes), whatever you do don't shake it and listen for wood bits in the chambers.  Because if there are, it could drive one crazy.  Don't ask.

That's why solid bodies are better.  Because I'm OCD about these things.

Seriously, DON'T SHAKE IT - you don't want to know!