Best guitar body wood for a bubinga neck?

[lc59]

I'll order a custom flat top LPS with Warmoth pro 25.5 bubinga neck with ebony FB.

But for the body I don't know what is better with the neck :
Swamp ash or mahogany?

The guitar will be tuned in drop B with a 60 string.
My amp is a Mesa Roadster head + 4*12.

So I expect rock/metal sound with 3D full sound, punch, clarity and cut through mix.

What is your advice? Thanks

 

[Cagey]

I would offer you a rabbit with a pancake on its head, but I suspect English isn't your first language <grin>

Seriously - if it was me building a LPS, I'd be using a mahogany body, perhaps with a maple cap, in order to approach a Les Paul sort of sound. But, I don't know if it's that critical. There's more mass in less space with those designs, so they tend toward more sustain than some of the thinner plank-like bodies do regardless of the wood species.

 

[lc59]

Yes, I'm french.
Sorry for my broken english...

 

[Cagey]

Don't worry about it. It's not a problem. If I had to speak French, you probably wouldn't understand a single word I said <grin>

This is a very cosmopolitan forum. There are a lot of members here from all over the place, and we manage to make it work because we have a common subject matter and can pull meaning from context. So, if you conjugate a verb wrong or use the wrong tense or plurality, it's not the end of the world. Lord knows native English speakers have a tough enough time doing it, to the point where sometimes we almost can't understand each other.

 

[m4rk0]

you could go either way...
Luke's Tele has a Boobenga/ebony neck on a Mahogany body, and that sounds great... The neck HB is really warm and LP-ish, while the bridge pu sounds like a real tele...

 

[Paul-less]

Don't worry about it. It's not a problem. If I had to speak French, you probably wouldn't understand a single word I said <grin>

This is a very cosmopolitan forum. There are a lot of members here from all over the place, and we manage to make it work because we have a common subject matter and can pull meaning from context. So, if you conjugate a verb wrong or use the wrong tense or plurality, it's not the end of the world. Lord knows native English speakers have a tough enough time doing it, to the point where sometimes we almost can't understand each other.

Lol you bastard....

Go with mahogany.

To hijack your thread, how do you like that Mesa? Good, Great, Amazing?

 

[Cagey]

What?

 

[erogenousjones17]

Don't worry about it. It's not a problem. If I had to speak French, you probably wouldn't understand a single word I said <grin>

This is a very cosmopolitan forum. There are a lot of members here from all over the place, and we manage to make it work because we have a common subject matter and can pull meaning from context. So, if you conjugate a verb wrong or use the wrong tense or plurality, it's not the end of the world. Lord knows native English speakers have a tough enough time doing it, to the point where sometimes we almost can't understand each other.

Lol you bastard....

Go with mahogany.

To hijack your thread, how do you like that Mesa? Good, Great, Amazing?

We can't talk about ice cream, but b-tard gets past the censors? What a strange place this is sometimes...  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[tubby.twins]

Maple works very well with a Bubinga neck.

 

[Cagey]

We can't talk about ice cream, but b-tard gets past the censors? What a strange place this is sometimes...  :icon_jokercolor:

Censorship never works right, no matter how hard you work at it. I don't know why anyone bothers; it's just extra work that has no return whatsoever. I administer a couple forums where I don't censor at all, and it's not an issue. If somebody gets out of hand, which is rare, there are ways of controlling them. But, fleeting expletives are just a part of normal speech, so you let 'em go. If somebody is offended by that sort of thing, they're as bad as somebody who abuses that sort of thing, so piss on 'em <grin>

 

[ptirman]

Congrats on going Warmoth. My opinion is mahogany.
Votre anglais est fantastique.

 

[Paul-less]

What?

Your beautiful use of english was very smart-assish, especially considering the topic and the target audience.

 

[Cagey]

What was smart-assish about it? I told the guy not to worry about his grammar, and explained that we don't worry about it here because we're a diverse group from all over the world. Seems to me I was being friendly, tolerant and welcoming. At least, that's the message I was trying to get across. Apparently, I stumbled somewhere. So, clue me in, so I don't do it again. I don't want to put anybody off. Far from it. The more, the merrier.

 

[Paul-less]

Lol, I ment no offense! I've always liked smart ass responses!

I was commenting on your choice of words. Many of them are beyond the "learner" stage of english, and therefore, your telling lc59 that not being proficient at english is acceptable may have fallen on deaf ears...

 

[Cagey]

I see. Well, hopefully I didn't discourage him from participating.

 

[lc59]

You didn't discourage me.

To reply Paul-less about Mesa, I find the Roadster great.
Before the Roadster I owned a tremoverb.
I like the punch of Mesas but it lack always a little something (too dark, too fuzzy, needs a lot of volume...)

I think I'll try the mahogany body with the bubinga neck.

thanks